Three young girls from Dharashiv district, Maharashtra in India staged their own kidnapping in an ambitious bid to meet global K-pop icons BTS, police confirmed on Monday. The incident, which unfolded on December 28,

In a bizarre incident, three minor girls from Maharashtra reportedly faked their own abduction to raise funds for a trip to South Korea. Their ultimate goal? To meet the members of the globally renowned K-pop band,

They had planned to go to Pune to earn money which they needed to travel to South Korea and meet their favourite K-pop band members, an official from Omerga police station said. On December 27, the Dharashiv police received a call on their helpline number from a person claiming three girls were forcibly taken away in a school van from Omerga taluka in the district,

The girls—one aged 11 and two aged 13—are from Maharashtra's Dharashiv district. They had planned to travel to Pune to earn the money needed for a trip to South Korea to meet their favourite K-pop band members.

On December 27, the Dharashiv police received a call on their helpline number from a person claiming three girls were forcibly taken away in a school van from Omerga taluka in the district, he said.