International drug racket: IAF Wing Commander arrested

A Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force has been arrested by the NCB from Maharashtra in connection with its probe in an international drug racket involving a scientist and his wife.
Officials said Wing Commander G Rajasekhar Reddy was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in coordination with Nanded Police on Monday and brought to Hyderabad today, based on investigations after a drug racket was unearthed in Hyderabad two days back.
They said Reddy, posted at Air Headquarters in Delhi, was the alleged "kingpin" of the racket and his purported involvement was revealed after the questioning of the duo in Hyderabad.

Some mobiles and Rs 7.5 lakh in cash were recovered from him.
Officials said Reddy was produced in a court in Hyderabad today which sent him in NCB's custody.
The NCB had on Monday seized 231 kg of the banned narcotic drug amphetamine, worth about Rs 45 crore, from Hyderabad and Bengaluru and arrested three persons including a research scientist and his wife.

NCB first seized 221 kg of amphetamine from two persons at Miyapur area here on September 30.
Venkat Rama Rao, a research scientist in a reputed private chemical firm of Bengaluru, had come to Hyderabad to collect the contraband from Ravi Shankar Rao, NCB said.

After Venkat and Ravi Shankar were arrested, 30 grams of amphetamine and Rs 1.23 crore in cash were seized from a house rented by Venkat near Electronic City in Bengaluru, and his wife was also arrested.
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The Air Force officer is suspected to have been involved in drug syndicate for around four years, police said today.
Wing Commander Reddy and Bengaluru-based scientist Venkat Rama Rao, also arrested by NCB, are school mates, a police official told PTI.
It was Rao who dragged the IAF officer in the syndicate, the official said.
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Meanwhile, Rajasekhar Reddy was produced before a court in Hyderabad which remanded him to 14 days Judicial custody after which he was shifted to a jail here.

Venkat Rama Rao, the research scientist working in a reputed private chemical firm in Bengaluru, who was arrested alongwith one Ravi Shankar Rao and sent to judicial custody on October 2, was also lodged in a prison here.
The scientist's wife, who was also arrested in Bengaluru, has also been sent to judicial custody and is lodged in a jail there, NCB officials told