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Kathmandu, June 6 (PTI) The police in Nepal have arrested seven people involved in human trafficking to India.
The police arrested the seven Nepalese nationals for their involvement in trafficking of eight women to Kolkata, according to the Kathmandu Metropolitan Office.The police told mediapersons that among the seven Nepalese nationals held included one Krishna Nepali, who was the mastermind in the racket.The women, who had been sold to a brothel in Kolkota last year, managed to escape from Dharamtala area where they were locked up for three days, the police said.Krishna and his associates had persuaded the women to carry herbs to Kolkata for a sum of Rs 30,000 each. The family members of the victims were also assured that the women would return within three days. The accused made Rs 6 lakh by selling the women to brokers, one of the victims said."We had never imagined that we would be trapped in such a situation in the name of exporting herbs," she said.The victims managed to contact the Nepal Consulate General's office in Kolkata after they escaped from the brothel. With the help of the anti-trafficking organization Maiti Nepal they returned to their homes, the police said.
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