India, Aug. 11 -- She ran away from home in Bangladesh after she failed a subject in school, and ended up in a sex racket across the border in India, where 200 men sexually assaulted her in three months since - this is what a 14-year-old girl rescued from Maharashtra's Palghar district has reportedly told the police and her rescuers.

Officials said her statement is being verified.

The girl was rescued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar Police, in a joint operation with NGOs Exodus Road India Foundation and Harmony Foundation.

Of the 10 persons arrested so far after a raid on a flat in Naigaon in Vasai on July 26, six are Bangladeshi nationals. These include three of the five victims, including t...