Three sisters in Ghaziabad who committed suicide left behind one serious note Inside a diary, which brought them to light Obsession with Korean culture and addiction to an online task-based game Though investigations are on to understand the context behind which the trio took the extreme step.
Police said the girls left behind a pocket diary containing notes written across eight pages and another note in a mixture of Hindi and English on a glass panel from where they jumped. (PTI)Also read: Among hundreds laid off by Washington Post, Shashi Tharoor’s son ends 12-year stint: ‘Heartbroken’
Three girls – ages 16, 14 and 11 – He died after falling from the window of their flat on the ninth floor At 2 am on Wednesday in a building in Ghaziabad. In addition to addiction to Korean culture, investigations so far have pointed to social isolation, mainly due to addiction to the online world, family dynamics and financial pressures the family has been experiencing for some time.
Obsession with Korean cultureThe girls were deeply involved in Korean culture, including K-dramas and K-pop, so much so that they adopted the nicknames Aliza, Cindy and Maria, which investigators said they used consistently within their self-contained world. HT reported.
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Eight pages of notes recovered from the apartment suggest that their fixation also affected their personal relationships within the family. This revealed that the girls did not “like” their stepbrothers or other family members because they felt that no one around them understood their deep attraction to Korean culture.
‘Unfortunate that they can’t go there’Police told HT that the girls have completely internalized this alternate identity. “In the note, they repeatedly mentioned how no one – not their brother, not other family members – understood their love for Korea,” an official said, adding that the note clearly stated that the girls did not like their half-brother, referring to him only as “brother”. The chilling note the girls left included a line that read, “Are you going to stop us from going to Korea?”
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“They had a phone that they used to watch shows. They also had a TV that they used to watch K-dramas and movies. They wrote in notes that they liked Korea, China, Japan and Thailand and they liked the people of those places. They were upset that they couldn’t be there.”
No school, social lifePolice said the sisters had stopped attending school around 2020. The eldest studied till class 7, the middle till class 5 and the youngest till class 3. They had little contact with others, including their brothers, and did not attend school. They rarely went out, and had no familiar friends around. “They had no social life at all,” said an official.
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In tension, the father takes away their phoneIn the days leading up to the sensational suicide, tension in the house ran high as the father sold the phone that the girls used to watch K-dramas. Police said the father sold the phone ₹3,500 probably due to financial stress. About 10 days before the incident, he forced them to delete a social media account with about 2,000 followers. “This angered them deeply,” an official said. “Their online world was everything to them.”
Diagonal family dynamicsWhile earlier reports said the father was married twice, his third marriage is also being investigated. The eldest daughter, 16, and a 13-year-old son are children from his first marriage. The girls, aged 14 and 11, were born to his second wife, who is also the younger sister of his first wife, police told HT. A four-year-old daughter also lives at home. Investigators aware of the details of the case said he is the child of a third wife, another sister of the first two women. Officials said, this aspect of the case is still being verified.
“The family dynamics were complex. All the family members lived together in a 3BHK flat,” said Additional Commissioner of Police Alok Priyadarshi.
With inputs from Piyush Khandelwal, Hemani Bhandari and Jignasa Sinha
[Discussing suicides can be triggering for some. However, suicides are preventable. A few major suicide prevention helpline numbers in India are 011-23389090 from Sumaitri (Delhi-based) and 044-24640050 from Sneha Foundation (Chennai-based).]
