Mar 09, Kathmandu- Two people have been arrested on charges of trafficking two young women to Pune, India.

Man Bahadur Tamang, 32, of Dupcheshwor Rural Municipality-7, Nuwakot, and currently residing in Tarkeshwor Municipality, Kathmandu, and Som Bahadur Tamang, of Dupcheshwor Rural Municipality-6, and residing in Tarkeshwor, have been arrested.

The Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau arrested them from Tarkeshwor on Friday.

The bureau's SP Narendra Kunwar informed that two people have filed a complaint against them.

He said that the complaint states that they were brought to Koteshwor from Chapagaon Thecho, Lalitpur Godavari Municipality-12, on November 18, 2002 and taken to Pune, Maharashtra via Jhapa, Kakadbhitta, Darjeeling, Kolkata, Delhi, India.

"They were rescued on Magh 15", SP Kunwar said, "They said they were made to cross the Nepal-India border with fake citizenship and identity cards".

The victims had said that Manav Bahadur had taken them to Kothi and sold them for one lakh and fifty thousand Indian rupees. Kunwar said that the same was revealed during the investigation.

SP Kunwar said that Man Bahadur has already been convicted in a human trafficking and smuggling case and has served a 10-year prison sentence.