IAF wing commander who ran international drugs racket held

New Delhi: Probing one of the biggest international drugs racket in recent times, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a serving wing commander of the Indian Air Force. Some other officers are under surveillance for manufacture and supply of psycho-stimulant drugs, considered "cool" and "fashionable" by youngsters in most parts of the world.

Wing Commander G Rajasekhar Reddy was nabbed by Nanded police on Monday night on the basis of information shared by the NCB when he was trying to flee to Goa.

NCB sources said that he was the mastermind of a drugs ring busted in Hyderabad and Bengaluru in which a scientist, Venkat Rama Rao, and his wife were arrested with 231 kg of amphetamine worth Rs. 231 crore, as first reported by TOI on Tuesday.

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