Three minor sisters allegedly committed suicide by jumping off from a ninth-floor flat, in Ghaziabad, on Wednesday. They reportedly left an eight-page note expressing their love for Korean culture and K-Pop. According to reports, the girls were distraught over not being able to watch K-dramas and were reportedly addicted to an online task-based game, according to several media reports.
Sources say that the three sisters, aged 16, 14 and 12, had created a K-Pop fan page using the names Maria, Aliza and Cindy that had gathered numerous followers on social media.
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Around 2.15 am, the police received a report that three girls had jumped from a ninth-floor balcony from a tower in Bharat City, located under the jurisdiction of the Teela Mor Police Station in Sahibabad area. Upon arrival at the scene, police found the girls' bodies on the ground floor and suffered multiple fatal injuries. They were rushed to a hospital in Loni, where they were pronounced dead upon arrival.
Police probe reveals...
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shalimar Garden) Atul Kumar Singh, the sisters were addicted to a Korean task-based interactive "love game".
"Their parents had restricted their mobile phone usage for the past few days, which left them distressed. This may have triggered the decision (to take the extreme step)," he was quoted as saying by NDTV.
He added that the sisters got addicted to the game during pandemic years and played it almost without break.
According to an NDTV report, investigators recovered a diary with a handwritten note stating, "Sorry, Papa, I am really sorry," along with a crying emoji.
The police are determining the exact cause of the incident and also recording the statements of the family members.
According to Hindustan Times, the police said, "In the note, they repeatedly mention how no one – not their brother, not other family members – understood their love for Korea."
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The police further informed that the note explicitly added that the girls did not like their half-brother. "They had a single phone which they used to watch shows. They also had a TV which they used to watch K-drama and movies. They wrote in the note that they liked Korea, China, Japan and Thailand, and that they liked people from those places. They were upset that they could not go and live there," the police told Hindustan Times.
Tensions after father took away phone
In the days before the tragic suicide, tensions rose in the house as the father sold the phone the girls used to watch K-dramas, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Police reported that he sold the phone for Rs 3,500, likely because of financial stress. He also made them delete a social media account that had around 2,000 followers about 10 days before the incident. "This angered them deeply," an officer told Hindustan Times. "Their online world was everything to them."
Father had no idea
The girls' father, Chetan Kumar, said that he had no idea such games existed. He was quoted as saying by NDTV, "If I had known that such tasks existed, no father would ever allow his children to be part of it."
He further informed that one of his girls had earlier told him that she was the "boss" and that her sisters followed her directions.
"They had been playing for the game for two-and-a-half to three years," NDTV reported the father saying.
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"They often said they wanted to go to Korea. I did not know that this game involved such tasks. I came to know about all this only after the police forensic team examined their mobile phones," the father said.
He recalled that the family was asleep at the time of the incident. "My wife was sleeping in the inner room. The girls woke up on the pretext of drinking water, bolted the door from inside and jumped from the balcony," he said.
He said the girls had mobile phones with them, but he did not notice them immediately.
"They threw the phones outside the room. The police later seized them for investigation," he added.
Girls had not attended school for past 2-3 years
Kumar said the three sisters did everything together. From eating, bathing to spending time and mostly stayed in their room.
He added that the girls had not attended school for the past two to three years after struggling academically. This made them feel embarrassed and more withdrawn.
Devastated after reading note
NDTV quoted Chetan Kumar telling IANS that he was devastated after finding a note left by his daughters. The note contained a message that said, "Sorry, Papa...we cannot leave Korea. Korea is our life, and you can't make us leave it. That's why we are committing suicide."
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Kumar stated he did not know what games his daughters were playing or if those games had forced them into a certain task.
"Whatever happened is quite bad. I will say, please don't let your children play games. We never know what tasks they will give... We didn't know this...If they had shared what kind of tasks they were giving, then it would not have happened... I don't know which games those were. We just didn't know ... If we knew, then we would not have let them play that game," he said.
