Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has secured the return of fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya from the UAE. He said this marks a new milestone in the government’s policy of zero tolerance against narcotics.

In a social media post, Mr Shah said that the Narendra Modi government is relentlessly tracking down drug traffickers hiding abroad and destroying their entire ecosystem with a ruthless approach. The Minister said that by tracing the criminal through a top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top approach, country’s agencies have once again proven that no matter where drug traffickers hide, they cannot escape the long arm of Indian law.