Telangana’s elite anti-drugs Task Force EAGLE has seized 220 kg of Ephedrine valued Rs 70 crore in the international market.

The Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) team busted the Ephedrine manufacturing racket at a residential flat in Jeedimetla on the outskirts of Hyderabad and arrested four persons.

According to EAGLE, main accused Shiva Ramakrishna Parama Varma, from whose flat the substance was seized, is a former chemist and real estate entrepreneur from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.

Varma, who was previously arrested in 2017 and 2019 for drug offences, had approached Dangeti Anil, Production Manager at PNM Life Sciences, with a proposal to produce Ephedrine at the company’s facility in IDA Bollarum. Anil roped in the company directors Venkata Krishna Rao and M. Pra

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