Sleuths of the Social Security Cell (SSC) rescued a minor girl and a 21-year-old BSc undergraduate from a brothel in Budhwar peth area yesterday afternoon and arrested two women who were acting as madams. Ritika (name changed) who hails from Dehradun in Uttarakhand is one of the women rescued during the raid, while the other is a 16-year-old girl who was kidnapped from Sivan district in Bihar six months ago.

The women who were forcing the two into prostitution have been identified as Salma Rahi (35) and Seema Thapa (40). The owner of the brothel however managed to escape. “We received a tip-off from city-based NGO Rescue Foundation stating that two girls had been forced into prostitution at the brothel,” said Police Inspector Bhanu Pratap Barge of the SSC.