Meerut, March 13 -- Two sisters from Meerut - 18 and 16 year old, Class 12 and Class 10 students - who allegedly left home after being lured with promises of joining a K-pop band in South Korea, were traced and safely recovered from Mumbai, police said.

Hailing from a well-to-do family of Shastri Nagar in the Medical police station area of the city, the girls' father had died earlier. The incident came to light after their mother lodged a complaint on March 10.

In her report, she stated that she had taken her son to write a school exam and when she returned home, she found that her daughters were missing. She also noticed that clothes, some belongings, cash and a PAN card were missing.

Based on the complaint, police registered a case o...