The girls, students of MMP English School in Randher, are with their parents now.

According to the police, Anjum Mansoor (13) and Bushra Hafezji (14) left their homes for school on Thursday, but instead they headed towards Mumbai in Saurashtra Express from Surat railway station.

When the girls did not return home, their parents started searching for them and contacted the school only to be told that both were absent that day. The helpless parents then lodged a missing complaint with the police.

During investigations, the police found out from two classmates, Talha Nakhuda and Adil Shaikh that the four had planned to visit Mumbai together to meet the star.

On reaching the railway station, the girls tried to contact their friends on mobile phone, but found it switched off, the police said. When Talha called back on the number he had received a call from, a woman told him that two girls from the station had made a call from her phone before leaving for Mumbai.

"The girls had only Rs 1,000 when theft home and did not know where Khan lived. The duo waited for Talha and Adil to reach Mumbai in the hope that they would help them find Khan's residence," Rander's police inspector G B Patel said.

He said, "A police team from Surat left for Mumbai with the boys to bring them back. In the meantime, the missing girls once again called on their friend's mobile to inform them of their arrival at Bandra. The boy asked them to wait at the Bandra Terminal as they were on the way. On reaching there, the police found the two girls near a PCO booth on the platform."