Police found a suicide note after three minor sisters allegedly jumped from the balcony of a ninth-floor apartment in Ghaziabad early Wednesday morning as investigators intensified their probe into the role of mobile phone addiction and the influence of an online Korean game, ANI reported.
Here’s what the police said
According to the preliminary information of the Ghaziabad police, the minors were playing an online task game.
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As reported by ANI, Nimish Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Trans-Hindon said that the three minor girls who died in Ghaziabad after jumping from the 9th floor of their residential building were clearly influenced by Korean culture.
DCP Patil said the police found a suicide note in the residence which clarified that they were influenced by Korean culture. However, no specific name of any gaming app was mentioned in the note.
“In the early hours of February 4, we received information that three girls had jumped from a building. They were pronounced dead at the hospital. We found a suicide note in the case. It is clear from the suicide report that the three girls were influenced by Korean culture. No specific application was named. The whole family was present in the house at the time of the incident, but they were asleep…” he said.
The incident took place late at night after the other family members had gone to sleep, PTI reported quoting officials.
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According to an NDTV report, the three sisters left behind an eight-page note in a pocket diary in which they apologized to their parents and described their gaming activities.
The note, written in Hinglish, urged their parents to read the diary in its entirety and stressed that everything written in it was true, NDTV reported.
“Read everything written in this journal because it’s true. (Read everything written in this journal because it’s true). Read now! I’m really sorry. Sorry, Dad,” the note read.
During the investigation, the police recovered a diary containing material related to the incident from the girls’ stationery, PTI reported.
What did father say?
The deceased minors have been identified as Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12), daughters of Chetan Kumar of Ghaziabad. Police said the family had five siblings — four sisters and a brother —’ and the father married twice.
All family members lived together.
“We cannot leave Korea. Korea is our life. You cannot free us. We are ending our lives,” their father said of the suicide, the minors’ father said, according to NDTV.
An eyewitness says: ‘they were sitting on the glass of the balcony…’
Eyewitness Arun Kumar told ANI that he saw the girls jump from the building and it appeared that one of them was planning to jump while others were trying to save her.
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“I saw all three of them jump. It was so sudden that it happened before I could do anything or call anyone. They were sitting on the glass of the balcony… It was abnormal. It happened around two in the morning… From what I saw, one of them was planning to jump and the others fell while trying to save her. I called the police and an ambulance…” he said.
The tragedy occurred last night around 2.15 am in Loni area under Tila Mod police station limit. The ACP said the girls were taken to a 50-bed hospital immediately after the incident where doctors declared them brought dead.
Police said the exact circumstances that led the sisters to take the extreme step are being investigated and the statements of family members are being recorded.
