Salim Dola, the alleged mastermind behind one of the largest synthetic drug manufacturing and supply cartels operational in India, started out selling gutkha, and has a Dawood Ibrahim connection. The RCN was issued following a request from the Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) as the alleged drug lord Salim Dola was wanted by the Mumbai police. (HT) Officers from the Mumbai police crime branch, which is probing a major narcotics case with Dola as a key accused, have told HT that the drug lord has been detained in Turkey’s Istanbul. Dola was detained in a joint operation carried out by the Turkish national intelligence organisation, MIT, and local police units, based on an Interpol red corner notice (RCN). The RCN was issued following a request from India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as the gangster was wanted by the Mumbai police. Who is Salim Dola? Salim Dola was born into a middle-class family in the Ghodapdeo neighbourhood of Mumbai’s Byculla, reportedly in 1966. He fell into the infamous Mumbai underworld at a young age and befriended …