Tipped off that the under-aged girls were confined at the brothel, Additional District Magistrate of Jamalpur Dr Namita Haldar asked the district Superintendent of Police (SP) Hafizur Rahman to rescue the girls on Monday night.

According to instruction, the local police carried out a raid at about 10:00pm and rescued the girls. Khodeza, the woman who controls the brothel girls, was also arrested for forcing the girls into prostitution.

One of the girls, hailing from Netrokona, said she used to work at a house at Dhanmondi in the capital. She was on her way to village when she met a man, who took her to the brothel and sold her.

The other girl, hailing from Comilla, said she also met a man on a railway station after she had come out of her house following a feud with her family. The man lured her into a job in a garment factory but sold her to Khodeza.

Jamalpur police said as the girls refused to get engaged in prostitution, Khodeza beat them severely. They showed the bruises caused by torture, police added.