A minor girl from Odisha's Balasore district Monday complained to the police that she was sold to a brothel in West Bengal, officials said. Police said the 15-year-old girl filed a complaint at Jaleswar Police Station after she managed to escape from the brothel after 45 days, which was running in a hotel. She, however, could not identify the name of the place where the hotel was located.

The tribal girl in her complaint said her father had died and she stayed with her mother and at her village. One day, Ajay Jena, a resident of the same village, convinced her mother that she could fetch a good amount of money if she worked in his relative's agricultural field in West Bengal for a few days.