Three teen sisters, Nishika (16), Prachi (14), and Pakhi (12), died in what the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad have labeled a suicide. The three minors fell to their deaths by jumping off the night-floor of the building in Bharat City Society where they lived. They left behind a diary with an eight-page note in which they wrote about their obsession with everything Korean.
According to officials, the girls were emotionally distressed when their father, Chetan Kumar, learned of their excessive attachment to Korea and Korean culture and confiscated their phones after which he sold them.
The police said the girls were allegedly watching K-dramas and were members of a certain Korean application on which they went by Korean names, Maria, Aliza, and Cindy, and had a significant number of followers.
Allegedly, the father also threatened to marry them off.
The diary they left behind along with the eight-page note read, “Sorry, Papa, I am really sorry,” along with a crying-face emoji.
The note also read: “You tried to distance us from Koreans, but now you know how much we love Koreans. You don’t know how much we loved Korea. The way we loved Korean actors and K-pop groups, we didn’t even love family members that much.”
Also, the note mentioned a younger sibling, a 4-year-old, whom the sisters wanted to introduce to the Korean stuff they played and watched, but the parents opposed their decision and instead made the younger sibling watch Bollywood films.
“You made her Bollywood, which we hated more than life itself.”
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the three sisters dropped out of school and never returned. Instead, they spent their days on their mobile phones, playing the Korean game, or app, for over two-and-a-half years. So far, the name of what the police believed to be either a Korean app or a game hasn’t been revealed, but they don’t exclude it to be a challenge similar to “The Blue Whale Challenge,” which originated in Russia and asked from the users to take their own lives. This, however, hasn’t been confirmed yet since the girls’ phone have been sold.
“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, according to The Sun.
He continued: “Prachi had once told him she was the ‘boss’ and that her sisters followed her directions.”
“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 told media.
“I urge parents to not let their children play video games.”
According to reports, the girls’ father had three wives, Sujata, Heena and Tina, all of whom biological sisters. Sujata is Nishika’s mother, while Heena is the mother of Prachi and Pakhi. He was also reported to have been in debt, allegedly owning around 20 million Indian rupees, which is roughly $200,000. This situation may have also influenced the family’s dynamics.
The Times of India reported that the girl’s father had a live-in partner who died under suspicious circumstance in 2015 after falling from the roof of a flat at Rajendra Nagar Colony in the Sahibabad police station area. The case was ruled a suicide.
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