Sher Bahadur Chepang and his wife were arrested from Madi Municipality in Chitawan district yesterday after the couple handed over a 12-year-old girl to a man to traffic her to Delhi on the pretext of marrying her, they said.
However, the girl was rescued with the help of the police and Maiti Nepal, a non-governmental organisation working against girls trafficking, from Kanchanpur district in far- west Nepal.
In a separate incident, three other traffickers including Govinda Mahato were arrested on Tuesday from Kaule village of the same district on charges of trafficking a 16-year-old girl to Mumbai.