BHOPAL: Gandhi Nagar police on Wednesday rounded up a youth in connection with selling of three girls of the city in a village located near Ujjain.

However SHO of Gandhi Nagar Jitendra Singh Patel ruled out the possibilities of human trafficking and said an investigation into the case is on. SP ( North) Arvind Saxena said Sajjad Hussain, alias Master, has been taken into custody, after a woman Zareena alleged that her 24- year- old daughter Sameena was sold by the accused on July 11.

However, Saxena said it is too early to speculate the allegations made by the mother of the girl as during further investigation by Gandhi Nagar police it came to light that the daughter of the complainant, who is said to be married and mother of two children, was divorced. After being left by her husband, she is living with another person on her own in Bhopal only.

On being asked about the two other girls who were sold by the youth, Saxena told said an investigation into the case is underway. Whether it was a case of human trafficking or not will be clear only after the recovery of the girls. Recently, Zareena has lodged a complaint of abduction of her daughter against Sajjad at Gandhi Nagar police station.

In her complaint, she told the police that she used to work at a house owned by Sohail Khan and her daughter Zareena also used to go there to help her.

On July 11, at 1 pm, when her daughter returned home after the work, the youth abducted her. Later, when she reached Gandhi Nagar police station to lodge a complaint of abduction, the police only registered a complaint of missins person. Later, the woman, along with others, caught the youth from Faiz mosque and handed him over to the Gandhi Nagar police.

Later, it came to light that the accused also sold two other girls. However, police only said everything would come to light after the investigation.