India, July 10 -- LUCKNOW The police on Thursday busted an inter-state human trafficking racket with the arrest of two men in Lucknow and rescued two minor girls, including one trafficked from Lucknow's railway station and another from Rae Bareli.

Two key members of the network, Santosh Sahu alias Dabloo, 45, and Manish Bhandari alias Monu, 44, preyed on teenage and young girls on the pretext of marriage. They were nabbed from Krishna Nagar. The arrest opened a can of worms as the accused confessed that they allegedly sold about 12-15 minor girls across other states, said DCP (south) Nipun Agarwal in a presser on Thursday.

He said a 16-year-old girl from Lucknow, who had set out to Vrindavan to attend a religious discourse, had fallen i...