Police have arrested a 27-year-old man at Nalasopara in Maharashtra's Palghar district on the charge of forcing women into prostitution, an official said on Sunday.

The arrest was made by the officials of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) of the Nalasopara unit of the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate on March 15, he said.