Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the Narcotics Control Bureau has secured the return of fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya from the UAE.

“Modi govt is relentlessly tracking down drug traffickers hiding abroad and destroying their entire ecosystem with a ruthless approach,” the Home Minister said in a post on X. 

Modi govt is relentlessly tracking down drug traffickers hiding abroad and destroying their entire ecosystem with a ruthless approach. 
Creating a new milestone in the policy of zero tolerance against narcotics, the NCB secured the return of fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh…

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) August 14, 2026

 He said the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) secured the return of Basoya from the UAE creating a “new milestone” in the policy of zero tolerance against narcotics,

 
“By tracing the criminal through a top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top approach, our agencies have once again proven that no matter where drug traffickers hide, they cannot escape the long arm of Indian law,” he said.

Basoya is accused of being the mastermind of an international drug syndicate.

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