Sorry, papa: Three Ghaziabad girls commit suicide; a fixation with K-culture surfaces

“I apologize, dad. The last words of three sisters who committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of their home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, were, “I am feeling very, very alone.” The event happened on Wednesday at around two in the morning.

The three sisters, who were 12, 14, and 16 years old, were thought to have committed themselves as a result of their addiction to an unidentified task-based Korean online gaming program. Police sources, however, disregarded this theory and claimed that the victims’ diaries revealed their admiration for Korean culture.

According to police sources, the victims took the drastic action because their parents, who are not wealthy, objected to their daughters seeing such information and took away their phones. Chetan Kumar, the girls’ father, told India Today TV that he believed they were using their phones to play ludo. Kumar has been married twice and has five children, including three daughters who passed away.

One of the three victims was the daughter of the man’s first marriage, and the other two were the daughters of his second wife. The girls wrote in their diaries about how much they enjoyed Korean culture, including K-Pop culture, Korean films, Korean music, Korean short films, Korean television shows, and Korean series.

A note was found in the victims’ room,  which read, “A true life story. Is diary mein jo kuch bhi likha hain, woh sab padh lo, kyunki ye sab sach hain. (Whatever you are seeing in this diary, read everything, because everything is true) Read now! I am really sorry, sorry papa.“

According to preliminary investigations, the victims were supposedly addicted to the so-called Korean game program and had been using their phones a lot. Police sources, however, disregarded this possibility. The one-page suicide note written to the girls’ parents was found by authorities during a search of the family’s apartment. As part of their investigation, police seized the note.

After the event, police discovered pictures of the victims’ relatives strewn across the floor of their chamber. “I am very, very alone” was written in scrawls on the building’s interior wall. My life is incredibly lonely.

Police were notified after residents reported hearing a loud bang and sounded an alarm. Once at the location, a team sealed the place and sent the bodies for post-mortem analysis. A neighbor who watched the victims’ last moments recounted the horrifying scene he saw, claiming that at first he thought they were a couple with a child trying suicide and that it was an unusual sensation.

The victims’ father, Chetan Kumar, said he had no idea his daughters were engaging in what he initially described as a “online task-based game.” One of his statements was that “they completed a task yesterday.”

The victims were impacted by Korean culture, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Nimish Patil. He said that no information on the assignments or the online game had been discovered and that the family had prohibited cell phones for a few days. The girls’ cell phones and online activity are being investigated by police, who are also questioning the family members. Additionally, they stated that cyber specialists may help with the analysis of past app usage and online interactions.