Another Drugs Unit Of Arrested Airforce Officer Unearthed In Sainikpuri 

Hyderabad: A huge stockpile of amphetamine worth Rs9 crore was unearthed in Sainikpuri in Secunderabad on Friday.

This is in continuation to the biggest ever narcotics bust made by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the first week of the month. Over Rs231 crore worth contraband was seized from one Venkata Ramana and his wife in Hyderabad and Bengaluru and the kingpin in the entire episode Airfore Wing Commander Rajasekhar Reddy was later arrested in Nanded.

The latest seizure also belonged to Rajasekhar Reddy who was running the unit in a rented building in Sainikpuri. After extracting information from the accused during the interrogation, the NCB slueths spotted the building where the drug was stored.

Reddy was the mastermind of the 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. He was running a plant to manufacture the drug in the garb of a pharmaceutical unit.

Belonging to Hyderabad, Reddy is posted in the Directorate of Information and Technology office of the Western Air Command at Subroto Park in New Delhi, which comes under the IAF headquarters. He was posted in Bengaluru for a long time and he got drugs manufactured in a Hyderabad laboratory through Venkat and another person, Ravi Shankar Rao.