Police arrested five persons for trafficking as many girls from Ghurabandha in Ghatsila sub-division to Madhya Pradesh on the plea of providing them job there.

While arresting the accused, who include a woman, the police succeeded to recover three of the girls.

Four of those arrested, including a woman are residents of Madhya Pradesh, whereas the fifth one is a resident of Hatiapata village of Ghurabandha.

Revealing about the breakthrough, senior SP, M Tamil Vanan said that one Upendra Sabar who is a resident of Pahadpur in Ghurabandha had on January 5 lodged an FIR alleging that his daughter and four other girls of the same village have been sold in Madhya Pradesh.

"On getting the complaint, we set up a team and sent it to Madhya Pradesh. The team led by sub-inspector Manikant Kumar carried out an extensive search operation there and finally succeeded to recover three of the five victims," said Vanan while addressing a press conference on Saturday night.

The senior SP said while recovering the girls, the police team arrested four persons, including the woman from Madhya Pradesh and later arrested the fifth person from Hataliapata on Saturday.

Vanan said the one arrested from Ghurabandha is a 22-year-old youth, Parmeshwar Munda. He said it was Parmeshwar who had lured the five girls into going over to Madhya Pradesh for jobs after being contacted by some agents from Madhya Pradesh.

According to police, the girls taken to Madhya Pradesh were supposed to be shifted to Rajasthan where they would have been subjected to forced marriage.

The human traffickers from Madhya Pradesh had taken away the girls on November 16.

The police sources said the whereabouts of two remaining girls is yet to be known, adding that investigation into the fate of the two girls is on.

Those arrested from Madhya Pradesh were identified as Kuber Singh Parihar (26), Pappu Parihar (33) Mantu Goswami (58) and Makdi RathoreRathore (40) wife of Parmu Rathore.