Kamal Ghorui
GHAZIABAD: Three minor half-sisters — aged 16, 14 and 12 — died after jumping from the ninth floor of their apartment in Ghaziabad’s Bharat City society in the early hours of Wednesday, with a diary recovered from the flat pointing to deep emotional distress and a final rupture within the family over their younger sister aged 4 ‘Devu’ and cultural choices.Police said the girls fell from the bedroom window of their ninth-floor flat around 2am. A resident who witnessed the incident told police that the eldest girl fell first, followed within seconds by the two younger sisters. All three died on the spot.
A handwritten note left behind apologised to their father and directed him to read a pocket diary, which investigators say sheds light on what may have been the tipping point. The diary reveals the sisters’ intense attachment to Korean pop culture and their growing alienation after repeated objections from family members — particularly over their attempts to introduce their four-year-old half-sister, Devu, to what they described as their “K-world”.According to police sources, the girls wrote that their distress peaked after their parents objected to Devu being exposed to Korean music, dramas and celebrities, and instead encouraged her interest in Bollywood. The diary describes this rejection as a breaking point, after which the sisters decided to emotionally distance themselves from the younger child.“You made her Bollywood, which we hated more than life itself,” one entry reads, according to police officials familiar with the contents. The girls wrote that their attempt to make Devu “their own” was rebuffed by the family, deepening their sense of isolation.Their father, Chetan Kumar, acknowledged that the girls were deeply interested in Korean culture and said tensions had increased when the family refused to accept it. “They wanted us to accept Korean culture. When we refused, they withdrew into their own world,” he told police.Investigators said the girls had not been attending school and largely remained confined to their home, spending most of their time together. The diary reflects feelings of loneliness, rejection and emotional turmoil in the days leading up to their deaths.Deputy Commissioner of Police (Trans-Hindon) Nimish Patil said the diary appears to have been written one or two days before the incident, possibly after a heated exchange at home. “We are examining the circumstances in which the diary was written and the sequence of events that led to the incident,” he said.Police have sent the diary and a mobile phone recovered from the room for forensic examination and said the probe is continuing.
