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In a heartbreaking incident, three minor sisters allegedly died by suicide after jumping from the ninth floor of a residential building in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district late Tuesday night (February 3). The incident took place at Bharat City Society, where the sisters—aged 12, 14 and 16—ended their lives together.

Police recovered an eight-page suicide note written in a pocket diary from the sisters’ room. The contents of the note have revealed disturbing details behind the tragic step.

According to investigators, the suicide note points to the sisters’ deep emotional attachment to Korean content, K-pop, along with growing conflict with their family, mental stress, and fear related to marriage.

In the letter addressed to their father, the sisters wrote that Korean culture and K-pop meant everything to them and accused their family of trying to take it away. They wrote that they loved Korean actors and K-pop groups more than their own family and could never imagine marrying an Indian man. Apologising to their father, they stated that they chose suicide because they felt their preferences and emotions were being forcibly suppressed.

The suicide note also contained a long list of their favourite interests, including Korean actors, K-pop groups, Korean BL dramas, as well as Chinese, Thai and Japanese content, Hollywood music, cartoons and mobile games. This list reflected the digital and entertainment-driven world in which they felt most connected and emotionally safe.

The sisters also mentioned their younger brother, Devu, in the note. They expressed resentment over the family’s refusal to allow them to introduce him to Korean and K-pop culture. The note claimed that this restriction widened the emotional distance between them and their brother, eventually leading them to detach themselves from him. They wrote that they wanted to make Devu part of their world, but the family never gave them the chance and instead pushed him towards Bollywood, which they strongly disliked.

Fear of marriage and mounting mental pressure were repeatedly mentioned in the note. The sisters wrote that the idea of marriage caused them severe anxiety, stating that marrying someone outside the culture they admired felt impossible to them. They described feeling emotionally trapped and under pressure, adding that death seemed preferable to living under constant fear, conflict and distress.

In his statement to the police, the girls’ father, Chetan Kumar, said that all three sisters were severely addicted to mobile phones and spent several hours daily playing Korean online games. He told investigators that the girls had even adopted Korean names for themselves—Maria, Aliza and Cindy.

Talking about their obsession, Kumar said, if he removed the DP from the phones—on which the girls had written their chosen names—they would refuse to eat. He also said the children would insist on being sent to Korea and warned that they would not study otherwise.

According to the father, tution teachers had advised the family that the girls’ mindset needed to be changed first, saying that enrolling them in school would not help unless their thinking and behaviour improved.

The father said that he had spoken to the girls even on the night of the incident. “We told them that if they had finished eating, they should go to sleep. One of my daughters then said she wanted to go to Korea. I asked her what she would do there,” he said.

He added that he had taken their mobile phones from them around 7 pm that evening. At about 10 pm, the girls managed to get the phones again and continued using them until midnight, after which his wife took the phones back.

“After that, all three came out from under the blanket, went into the temple room, and locked the door from inside. What happened after that, we do not know. Later, all three were found downstairs,” the father said.

According to police officials, the teenagers had become engrossed in task-based Korean romantic games. They had also stopped attending school for the past two years.

Chetan Kumar works in online share trading. He has been living in a rented flat at Bharat City Society for the past three years with his two wives—Sujata and Hina—and five children.

Of the three girls who died by suicide, Nishika was the daughter of Chetan’s first wife, Sujata, while Prachi and Pakhi were daughters from his second wife, Hina.

According to the family background shared with the police, Chetan and Sujata did not have children for several years after marriage. He later married Sujata’s sister, Hina. A few months after his second marriage, Sujata gave birth to Nishika.

From his second wife Hina, Chetan had Prachi, Pakhi and another daughter. Later, a son named Dev was born to his first wife Sujata.

Police officials said the matter is under investigation, and further steps will be taken after a detailed examination of the suicide note and statements from family members.