On Thursday, the Mumbai police’s Crime Branch announced the deportation of Mohammad Sohail Shaikh, 31, who was part of a drug network gang, from Dubai to Mumbai, where he was placed under arrest. Shaikh is the third person to be deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Mumbai in connection with peddling, after the deportation of two suspects, identified as Taher Dola and Mustafa Kubbawala, from Abu Dhabi in June and July this year, respectively. Sources indicate another deportation is in the works in the same case.

While in the past, the UAE government had extradited or deported 19 accused — reportedly between 2002 and 2018 — a majority of them were linked to terror activities like the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai . It is not common for offenders in one case to be deported one af

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