TRISHULI, NUWAKOT: A 44-year-old man has been arrested after nine years for allegedly trafficking a girl to India.

The man has been identified as Man Bahadur Tamang (44), a permanent resident of Ghyangfedi at Dupcheshwor-1 in Nuwakot district.

Following an FIR filed by the victim last month, Tamang was held from his home two days ago, the Nuwakot District Police Office said.

He had allegedly persuaded a local 11-year-old girl to go with him to Kathmandu on a false promise of finding her work there before trafficking her to India in April 2008.

The girl, who is in her early 20s now, was rescued with the help of the Indian Police and an organisation involved in rescing girls, after two years of the incident.

She is currently a high-school student and under the protection of the Nepali Home, said Chief Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office Dev Bahadur Bohara.

He is being tried under the Human Trafficking and Smuggling Act.

Before trafficking the girl to India, the accused had brought her to the capital and put her in a hotel.

The following day, Tamang had taken her to the Manakamana Temple and handed her to an unidentified woman who then took her to India via the Karkarvitta point in Jhapa.

The woman had sold her to a brothel in Haldiya in Kolkata in India.

It took seven years for her to gather courage to file a complaint against her trafficker, said police.

Similarly, others who were allegedly involved in the crime were Mendo Tamang (41) and locals Prem Tamang and two whose identities are yet to be ascertained are on the run.

It has been learned that a 22-year-old Sunumaya Tamang and Sanumaya Tamang of the same locality had gone missing sometimes ago and the police succeeded in arresting Tamang in course of investing into the disappearance of two women.