Police have arrested a man, who had been on the run after trafficking two women to India and selling them to a brothel, after 33 years.

The detainee has been identified as Bishnu Bahadur Thapa (57) of Thori Rural Municipality-9, Parsa and currently residing in Katari Municipality-3, Udayapur.

DSP Om Prakash Khanal, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Parsa said that a team deployed from the District Police Office, Parsa arrested Thapa from Katari where he had been in the area for the past few months.

According to DSP Khanal, Thapa took two women of Thori, Parsa to India on the pretext of providing decent jobs and sold them to a brothel in 1989. He had been absconding since then.

DSP Khanal said that a team from the District Police Office apprehended Thapa acting on a tip-off.

He said that Thapa will be presented before the Parsa District Court on Thursday and will be sent to the Birgunj Jail to do the time.