Ghaziabad suicide: Father recalls girls’ Korea obsession, warns parents about game addiction

GHAZIABAD: The begetter of 3 insignificant sisters who died aft allegedly jumping from the balcony of a ninth-floor level successful Ghaziabad said his daughters had told him they could not springiness up Korean online contented and gaming, remarks helium recalled aft constabulary recovered a termination enactment from the spot.The incidental occurred astir 2.15 americium connected Wednesday astatine Bharat City Society nether Teela Mor constabulary presumption limits successful the Sahibabad area.

The deceased person been identified arsenic Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12), daughters of Chetan Kumar, a nonmigratory of Ghaziabad.A distrot Chetan Kumar said to reporters, “They had told me, ‘Papa, we cannot permission Korea. Korea is our life. Korea is everything to us. You cannot abstracted america from it.

We volition springiness up our lives.’”“I didn’t adjacent cognize which games they were playing oregon what benignant of tasks were involved. If we had known, this wouldn’t person happened,” helium said, urging parents to intimately show their children’s online activity.An eyewitness, Arun Kumar, told quality bureau ANI that helium saw the girls leap from the building. “They were sitting connected the balcony glass. It happened precise abruptly astir 2 am. From what I saw, 1 of them appeared to leap archetypal and the others fell portion trying to prevention her,” helium said, adding that helium instantly informed the constabulary and called an ambulance.

Police said each 3 girls suffered fatal injuries aft falling to the crushed level and were rushed to a infirmary successful Loni, wherever doctors declared them dormant connected arrival.ACP (Shalimar Garden) Atul Kumar Singh said preliminary probe suggests the sisters were addicted to a Korean task-based interactive ‘love game’, and household members had objected to their excessive mobile telephone usage successful caller days.DCP Nimish Patil said the girls were heavy influenced by Korean contented and had spent agelong hours connected their phones, peculiarly since the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Mobile telephone usage had been restricted for the past fewer days, which whitethorn person caused distress. The probe is inactive astatine an archetypal stage,” helium said.Police said the girls’ acquisition had been irregular and that they had not attended schoolhouse for the past 2 years. The household has 5 children — 4 daughters and a lad — and each members lived together. The incidental took spot precocious astatine nighttime aft different household members had gone to sleep.During the probe, constabulary recovered a diary containing worldly related to the incident. A enactment wrong read, “Read everything written successful this diary, it is each here,” on with a crying-face emoji and the message, “Sorry papa, I americium truly sorry.”Police said the nonstop circumstances starring to the deaths are being investigated and statements of household members are being recorded.