The police have rescued 12 teenage girls who were held hostage for three days in a hotel in Itahari sub-metropolitan city of Sunsari. The girls were rescued on the basis of a complaint lodged at the police office that they had taken hostages and mistreated the girls who had applied online for employment.

2 of them are minors. DSP Lakshmi Bhandari of the local police office informed that the girls and teenagers who were held hostage by the activities of social organizations such as the local police office, human rights workers, voice of children and others were rescued on Tuesday.

Since two of the rescued children are minors, they have been checked and kept in a safe place, while the rest have been kept under police protection in the same hotel. Itahari sub-metropolis-9 bus park area of ​​the bandana hotel in the same room of the girls and teenagers who were held hostage were rescued, voice of children Kosi region head Bharat Thapa informed.

Voice of Children Itahari's cyber safety project officer Leela Bhujel said that because a marketing company named Bless Global International has placed an advertisement on the social network that gives 15,000 to 30,000 rupees per month, the girls have come here by filling the form.

Officer Bhujel has told that the children who were brought here were also sexually abused after being lured to get them jobs. According to her, they have been rescued and kept in a safe place, and preparations are being made to contact their families and hand them over.

'Because two of them are minors, a health examination has been done, after the report of the health examination, they will also be handed over to the family,' she said. 

In the beginning, the children were rescued on the basis of a complaint lodged at the police office by a 22-year-old girl from Sindhupalchok house who came to work in Kathmandu for a month and made it a marketing center in Sunsari's Ithari.