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Vanasthalipuram Operation Muskaan-VII Team along with the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit officials checked a bottle washing unit in Saheb Nagar where they found that the management had engaged the girls for work

Plans are afoot to accord AHTU the status of police station

He said that an action plan was prepared for abolishing the menace and added that an Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, led by an Inspector and special coordinating committee were created for accomplishing the goal

The Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt held a coordination meeting with the officials of different government departments on Friday

The rescued children, including girls aged between 15 and 17 years, were from Telangana, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

Police raided a house in Saheb Nagar of Vanasthalipuram and arrested R Shankar, P Sriramulu, both organisers and P Sandeep, a customer

The arrested persons were identified as Mozam Mondal, L Sarkar, Abhir Shaik and Muntaz Ali Mondal, all residents of West Bengal and natives of Bangladesh

The arrested persons were U. Yadaiah and his wife U. Chittamma and Rahul, all three organisers, while one customer, Bhaskar, too was arrested.