PURNEA, July 2 -- Police rescued two sisters, aged 8 and 9, who went missing along with their mother a year ago in Bihar's Supaul and arrested a woman in connection with their alleged trafficking, kidnapping, wrongful confinement and compulsory labour, police said on Wednesday. SP Sarath R S told HT, "We are looking into the case from all angles including human trafficking which is to be proved. Teams have been deployed to locate and rescue their mother. The three had gone missing in July 2025." "Police have taken one woman into custody. The girls were living with her in a rented accommodation at Krishnapuri locality under Supaul police station. The girls were rescued based on intelligence inputs and police will soon interrogate the woman's landlord," he added. The SP said police learnt of cruelty inflicted on the two minors during captivity and registered a case against the woman. "We were not allowed to go outside the house and were forced to work day and night. They also offered us little food," one of the girls told police. The woman was charged under BNS sections 140 (3) (kidnapping with the intent of keeping them secretly and wrongfully confined), 143 (4) (human trafficking), 126 (2) (wrongful restraint), 127 (2) (wrongful confinement), 146 (unlawful compulsory labour), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), and 352 (intentional insult) along with The Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. On the other hand, the girl's father alleged that his wife and two minor daughters went missing a year ago. "After a frantic search I found their pictures on social media and learnt that my wife married another man. I stopped looking for them after that," he told police....