India, Nov. 27 -- Seventeen minor girls were rescued from alleged trafficking and three people were arrested during a raid in Bardihan village of Bihar's Rohtas district on Wednesday night, police said.

Following an intelligence input that a large number of teenage girls were being brought to Bardihan from outside the state on the pretext of providing them work and allegedly forced into trafficking and bonded labour, police teams from five police stations, led by Bikramganj additional SP Saket Kumar, raided the location.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohtas Raushan Kumar said the rescued girls, residents of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, were handed over to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) at Sasaram and authorities in the concerned ...