New Delhi: Three minor girls from Maharashtra allegedly faked their abduction to raise funds and travel to South Korea to meet popular K-pop group BTS, police said on Monday.
An official from the Omerga police station said the two girls, aged 11 and 13 respectively, from Dalashiv district, planned to go to Pune to find work and save enough money to travel to South Korea.
On December 27, Dara Shiv police received a call on the helpline that three girls were allegedly abducted from a school bus in Omerga taluka.
The police immediately responded to trace a call received from a woman who was traveling from Omelgarh to Pune in a public bus.
The authorities, with the help of Mohol police and local shopkeepers at the bus stand, tracked the bus as it passed through Mohol in Solapur district.
The shop owner helped the girls out of the car and they were taken to a nearby police station.
Later, Omega police and the girls’ parents arrived to pick them up.
The official confirmed that when questioned further the next day, the girls admitted that they planned to work in Pune to earn money to travel to South Korea to meet BTS.
