India, March 13 -- The Assam Police have busted an inter-state human trafficking racket and rescued two girls trafficked, sold, and forced to marry older men in Rajasthan, investigators said on Thursday. Leela Ram, who married one of the two girls after paying Rs.4 lakh, has been arrested and brought to Assam.

Numal Mahatta, the police superintendent of Assam's Cachar, said Rupali Dutta and Ganga Ganju from Barak Valley were the prime accused. "They are absconding and their numbers have been traced outside Assam. We will arrest them soon and anyone involved in this racket will face action." Mahatta said they were analysing all the missing reports as a part of further investigation. "Our operation against human trafficking will continue."...