Police have arrested a couple, who owned a massage parlour here in Maharashtra, for allegedly running a sex trade racket from their establishment, officials said on Thursday.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of the police's anti-human trafficking cell raided the massage parlour located in Kashimira area here on Tuesday evening and busted the racket, the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar police said in a release. Two girls were also rescued from the place, the release said. The 30-year-old man who owned the premises and his wife, aged 28, both hailing from Mangaluru, were arrested.