Police rescued two teenage girls from a residence in Mohammad Nagar area of Khulna town on Monday night and arrested six human traffickers in this connection.
The arrestees are Milton Mondal, 40, and his wife Khadiza Begum, 22, Saiful Islam, 21, and his wife Rabeya Begum, 20, Md Himel, 21, and Ratna Akter alias Payel, 20.
Commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Md Mozammel Haque disclosed the matter at a press briefing at KMP headquarters on Wednesday.
He said being informed through the KMP apps 'Hello KMP', a police team led by Gopinath Kanjilal, assistant commissioner of KMP, conducted raid at the residence of Sheikh Mizanur Rahman at Adiluzzaman second lane of Mohammad Nagar area of the city on Monday night.
They rescued the girls and arrested six human traffickers from the spot, he added.
He said the human traffickers confined two teenage girls with a view to trafficking them to India.
He said, during the drive police also seized sexual arousal drug, sex toy dolls and sex related various ingredients from their possessions.
Quoting confessional statements of the arrestees, Mozammel said, they are the syndicate members of human trafficking group and they have been trafficking women abroad since long.
Milton Mondal, the prime trafficker, was accused in three cases with Sonadanga Police Station, he said adding that the arrested will be produced before the court with remand prayers.