Three minor girls stage kidnapping to meet BTS

Three minor girls from Dharashiv’s Omerga staged their own

kidnapping

on December 28 in a bid to fulfil their dream of meeting global K-Pop supergroup

BTS

. However, the police were quick to step in, track them down and return them safely to their families.
On Monday, it was reported that the girls, aged 13 and 11, were avid fans of BTS and followed the band on social media. According to Superintendent of Police Sanjay Jadhav, their fascination with the boy band led them to plan a journey to South Korea. “The girls intended to go to Pune first, earn money, and then fund their travel to

South Korea

to meet BTS,” Jadhav explained.
The three boarded a bus to Pune from Omerga on the evening of December 28. Before departing, one of the 13-year-olds called her parents, claiming that she and her friends had been kidnapped. “The call was made to prevent their parents from worrying about their delayed return home,” Jadhav added.

The parents immediately contacted the local police, who used mobile phone tracking and located the girls within 30 minutes. The bus they were travelling in was intercepted near Mohol in Solapur, approximately 115 km from Omerga.
“The girls were safely removed from the bus and brought back to Omerga,” Jadhav confirmed to TOI.
The next day, the police enquired with the girls, who confessed their plan to work in Pune to earn enough money to then head to South Korea to meet the boyband.

Upon their return to their parents, the police reportedly counselled the girls on the risks of their actions and the effects of excessive social media exposure. Their parents were also counselled and advised to monitor and limit their children’s screen time to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Early this month, another group of teens made headlines when they ran away from a school hostel in Visakhapatnam after being inspired by the movie 'Lucky Baskhar'. The four minor boys, who fled from their hostel in a big to become rich and buy cars, were rescued by the police from Vijayawada railway station.