India, July 9 -- Two school teachers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly operating a clandestine laboratory manufacturing the synthetic drug Mephedrone, also known as MD, in Rajashan's Sri Ganganagar city, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Jodhpur Zonal Unit said.

"The accused had rented a flat in Dream Homes Apartments about two months ago and had set up a full-fledged lab for producing Mephedrone. One of them is a government school science teacher, and the other teaches chemistry at a private school," Ghanshyam Soni, Regional Director of NCB Jodhpur said.

He added that the two had sourced chemicals and equipment from Delhi and were arrested from the flat during a raid conducted in the early hours of Tuesday.

The operation led to th...