LUCKNOW: The crime branch of the Lucknow police claimed to have busted a racket in human trafficking in the state capital on Monday night and arrested two of its kingpin. Operating through a wide network of agents spread across the country and neighbouring Nepal, the gang reportedly lured over 200 poor girls and boys and sold them in West Asian countries.These boys and girls have been sent to almost all the West Asian countries -- Riyadh in Saudi Arabia being the favoured destination.According to reports, the crime branch of Lucknow police, led by SP (crime) Gyan Prakash Chaturvedi, on Monday night arrested two human traffickers from hotels under Naka Hindola police station area who were identified as Burham Ahmed of Kolkata and Chak Bahadur Singh of Mumbai. They had been operating in the state capital from Triveni Hotel in Naka Hindola and Sahara Guest House in Yahiya Ganj.What they later revealed to the crime branch officials came as a shocker. Till now, the duo have trafficked nearly 100 poor girls and boys to Nepal -- either through Mumbai or Lucknow airports. Besides, girls and boys from several other cities across the country have become their gullible targets, said the SP (crime).Poor girls and boys from Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai in the country and Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Gonda in the state have been sold by these traffickers in various West Asian countries, Chaturvedi said. They also admitted to have sent at least four girls from Lucknow to these countries.What was surprising was the fact that of the three girls who had been saved by the crime branch of Lucknow police, one of them was only 16.Our officials got suspicious when they detected the age on the passport slightly scratched. They admitted to sending several minors to these countries, said the SP (crime).Now the question arises, why these girls and boys were allowed to leave the country from high-security airports, if they looked to be minors?The duo also revealed before the crime branch officials that for each girl or a boy, they used to get Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000. After all the expenditure they incurred, their commission used to be somewhere between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000. They also told the crime branch officials that they had a widespread network of agents in the country and Nepal. It was the duty of the agents to entice the families of the girls and boys to send them to West Asian countries, the duo told the police.They also hinted at involvement of several persons from the state capital in the trade.The crime branch also recovered five mobile phones, a credit card, a bag containing photographs of around 30-35 girls, who had been sent to Gulf countries, details of the income from the trafficking, six passports of which four are fake and a list of girls and boys to be sent to the Gulf countries. The police also recovered three girls, of whom one is from Hyderabad while the rest are from Nepal.The police also arrested owner of Triveni Hotel Harish Rajput for not informing the police about any suspicious movement in the hotel even though the duo had been operating from there for the last six months. Sahara Guest House owner Radhey Shyam Agarwal, who has also been named in the FIR, is said to be absconding.