The women were rescued yesterday, with the help of an NGO Rescue Foundation, police said today.
Working on specific inputs, a team led by ACP Ram Kumar of Kamla Market police station along with the representatives of the NGO, conducted a raid and rescued the girls, they said.
One Kamal and Lalita were arrested in this regard, police said.
"During investigation, it was revealed that the rescued women are residents of West Bengal and Karnatka. They belong to poor families and were lured to Delhi on the pretext of providing them good employment and were subsequently forced into flesh trade," Additional Commissioner of Police (Central District), Devesh Chandra Srivastva said.
"They told police that they want to go back to their places and live a normal and decent life. All rescued women are majors," Srivastva informed.
Further investigation in to the matter is in progress, he said.
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