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India has its own Walter White in Bengaluru as a research scientist called Venkat Rama Rao. In a major crackdown on drug trafficking network, a team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized 231 kgs of the banned narcotic drug amphetamine from Rao, according to a press release.
Venkat Rao is a research scientist at a reputed private chemical industry in Bengaluru, NCB said. Venkat had come to Hyderabad to collect the contraband from Ravi Shankar Rao, on 30 September, when NCB seized 221 kgs from their possession and arrested both of them.
In a follow up, 30 grams of Amphetamine and Rs 1.23 Crore in cash were also seized from Venkat’s house in Bengaluru. His wife was examined and arrested as well.
Further, 10 kg of amphetamine was seized from a manufacturing lab in Bollaurm area on 1 October.
The seized drug was worth about Rs 45 Crore, NCB added.
More members of this network are under the scanner and investigation is going on.
Amphetamine is the parent compound of prominent substances such as MDMA (ecstacy) and methamphetamine, and is used as an aphrodisiac and euphoriant.
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