New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) The Delhi Police's crime branch busted a drug trafficking racket in West Delhi and arrested two Nigerian nationals with ecstasy pills on Friday, police said.

Acting on a tip-off about the supply and sale of MDMA, popularly known as Ecstasy, the crime branch laid a trap in the Nihal Vihar area, police said.

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The police recovered 31 grams of the ecstasy pills worth more than Rs 10 lakh in the international market from the duo, they said.

The accused – King Okorie Johnson Arinze (28) and Chibuzdo (31) – came to India seven years ago on a tourist visa. However, when their visa expired, they stayed back and started small businesses. After suffering losses, they began to deal in drugs to earn easy money, police said.

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The team also arrested the receiver of the contraband during the raid, they said.

A case under relevant provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered and efforts are being made to arrest the supplier as well, they added.

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