A household in Jodhpur’s Manai village was thrown into mourning when two sisters Shobha (25) and Vimla (23), who were preparing for their upcoming wedding, died after allegedly consuming a poisonous substance.
They were supposed to get married on Saturday and were in the middle of wedding preparations on Friday evening when the tragedy occurred, according to PTI.
After discovering the sisters, their family rushed them to a private hospital in Jodhpur, where doctors declared them brought dead.
ADCP (West) Roshan Meena said the wedding festivities continued late into the night and the sisters went to bed around midnight.
“At about 4am, their health suddenly deteriorated, prompting family members to rush them to a private hospital. They were declared dead on arrival and their bodies were brought back home where burial preparations began,” the report quoted him as saying.
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After receiving the information, the police reached the spot and stopped the funeral. The sisters’ bodies were taken to a morgue for an autopsy before being returned to family, officials said.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the death may have been caused by the ingestion of a poisonous substance, although the exact cause will be confirmed when an autopsy is completed. Authorities also noted that no suicide note was found at the scene.
Ghaziabad sisters die by suicide
Meanwhile, three sisters – Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12) tragically ended their lives by jumping from the ninth floor of their building in Ghaziabad on February 4.
Their father Chetan Kumar said the girls had been involved in the Korean game for almost three years and had not attended school during that time.
Although earlier investigations did not confirm the use of any Korean task-based app, a nine-page pocket diary found in the sisters’ room provided a glimpse into their lives, revealing a deep fascination with Korean culture and the emotional issues surrounding family issues.
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The police recovered the mobile phone of the sisters from Shalimar Garden area of Delhi on Tuesday.
Police said Kumar sold the device to a dealer for ₹15,000, about two weeks before the girls took their own lives.
The investigation revealed that the sisters felt depressed after their father confiscated their phones, preventing them from playing online games and communicating with their Korean friends.
Police noted that the sisters’ diary repeatedly mentioned their affection for Korea and described what they saw as their family’s attempts to get them to give it up. “We love Korean. Love, love, love,” the diary says, calling itself a “true life story” and urging readers to believe its contents.
The note claims that their parents were against their interests and future decisions, including marriage. “You tried to make us give up Korean. Korean was our life. You expected our marriage to an Indian, that can never happen,” it read.
The diary also refers to physical punishment and ends with an apology to their father: “Death is better for us than your beating. That’s why we commit suicide… Sorry Dad.”
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Trans Hindon) Nimish Patil said retrieving data from the device was crucial to determining whether the suicides were linked to an online Korean task-based game that many believed the three girls were addicted to.
