A 30-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly operating a flesh trade racket in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Saturday.

Based on a tip-off, a team from the anti-human trafficking cell (AHTC) of the city police nabbed the accused near a mall on Friday, an official said. The police also rescued two women in their 20s whom the accused had pushed into the sex trade, senior inspector Mahesh Patil said.