Police have arrested 34-year-old Keshav Bhujel of Panchkhal Municipality-3 Kabhre currently residing in Pokhara Metropolitan City-9 on November 26 on the charge of forcing a 24-year-old girl to engage in prostitution.

The victim had filed a complaint against Bhujel saying that he had initially lured her to work for him by promising to engage her in a respectable and well paying job but later forced her into prostitution by threatening her. The victim underwent medical examination at Western Regional Hospital on November 25.