Kapilvastu, July 5 -- Six Nepali women who were taken to Delhi on the pretext of sending them to Iraq and Qatar for foreign employment were rescued and brought to the Krishnanagar border point in Kapilvastu on Friday. The victims, aged 26 to 41, had been stranded in the Indian Capital for the past three months.

According to the rescued women, the local agents of their respective district took them to Delhi with the promise of lucrative jobs in Iraq and Qatar.

"They told us they would send us abroad for free," one of the six women told the Post.

Among the six women brought to the country on Friday, four are from Morang district and one each from Jhapa and Parbat. According to them, the local agents took them to Kathmandu in the third we...