Three minors, aged 16, 14 and 12, jumped from a high-rise building in Ghaziabad early Wednesday morning, in a shocking incident. The trio lived with their father, a forex trader, and their mother.
The police were informed and the minor’s body was sent for post-mortem. (HT Photo/ Shakib Ali)While the elder was born to the businessman’s first wife, the younger two were his half-sisters, born to the businessman’s second wife. ANI news agency reported that the incident took place in Loni area under Tila Mode police limits.
After the incident, the minors were taken to a 50-bed hospital, where they were declared brought dead.
How did the incident happen?Assistant Commissioner of Police Singh said that the girls were with their mothers around 12:30 on Wednesday, but Puja entered the room and locked it from inside after a while. After that, they used a chair to access the window of the room and jumped one by one from the ninth floor.
“Guards and locals on the ground floor woke up to the loud sound of the girls reading, even their family members on the ninth floor,” Singh said. The police were later informed and their bodies were sent for post-mortem.
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Juvenile gambling, academic neglectThe deceased sisters were “highly addicted to an online Korean game, which led them to believe they were “Korean princesses” rather than Indians.”
The identity of this fantasy is revealed in the diary notes recovered from their home. The minors had been playing the game for about two to three years and spent most of their time gaming together.
assistant Police Commissioner also said The minors “were not focused on their studies”, adding that the 16-year-old was still in Class 4. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nimish Patil told PTI news agency that the girls’ education was irregular and their academic performance was below par.
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What was the Korean online ‘love game’?According to police sources, the three minors were drug addicts Korean online interactive “The game of love”, which allegedly strongly influenced their thinking and behaviour.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Atul Kumar Singh said the game follows a task-based format where players take on characters and complete missions. However, which app the girls used to play the game is yet to be identified and will be known after forensic analysis of their mobile phones.
The assistant police commissioner said the girls’ parents had “restricted their use of mobile phones for the past few days, causing them distress.” “This could trigger the decision (to take extreme action),” PTI quoted him as saying.
The police recovered what was in the diary notesInvestigators said the diary notes included an apology, sketches and Repeated Korean references The fictional world of culture and games, suggests an intense psychological immersion that began after the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The girls left a lot of notes in a diary saying they were sorry, and also made a crying caricature,” Singh said. “The diaries they left behind contain many details about their lifestyle and their obsession with task-based games,” he added.
A note left by the girls read, “Read everything written in this diary, it’s here…” followed by a tearful sketch and a handwritten apology that said, “Sorry dad, I’m really sorry.”
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Dad Says ‘Didn’t Know Online Games Worked’D The father of the minor said he According to PTI, he did not know that the game involved tasks, adding that his daughters repeatedly said they wanted to go to Korea.
“They often said that they wanted to go to Korea. I didn’t know that this kind of work was involved in this game,” he added, adding that it only came to light after the police forensic team examined the girls’ phones. However, she recalls that the elder told her that she was the ‘boss’ and her sisters followed her instructions.
“If I had known such work existed, I would have stopped it. No father would ever let his children be a part of it,” he told PTI.
Witnesses described the incident as ‘sudden’, ‘unusual’An eyewitness, Arun Kumar, said he saw three minors jumping from the window, calling the incident “sudden” and “unusual”.
“They were sitting on the balcony glass….. from what I saw, one of them planned to jump, and the others fell to save him,” said Kumar, who then called the police and an ambulance.
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