GHAZIABAD: Police probing the alleged suicides of three sisters in Bharat Metropolis have recovered incremental knowledge from a cell phone offered by their father days earlier than their deaths, discovering that the women spent nearly 20 hours a day on the system watching Korean content material, cartoons and gaming. The handset – picked up from an electronics store in Shalimar Backyard on Monday – additionally comprises viewing and gaming materials that the sisters listed of their suicide observe final week, police mentioned.
The three sisters – aged 16, 14 and 12 – had been discovered mendacity subsequent to one another on the society’s premises, instantly beneath their ninth-floor window, on Feb 4. They had been taken to hospital and declared lifeless on arrival.
Police mentioned that the cellphone was offered by their father, Chetan Kumar, to the Shalimar Backyard store for Rs 15,000 about 15 days earlier than the incident. The system had been despatched for forensic examination to retrieve deleted knowledge and map the women’ on-line exercise and contacts.An officer mentioned the telephones had been central to establishing what the sisters had been consuming on-line and whether or not they had been in contact with anybody outdoors the household. Information recovered to this point reveals the sisters had been closely invested in Korean tradition, with Ok-pop that includes most prominently.The cops additionally discovered materials linked to video games named within the suicide observe, together with the horror titles Poppy Playtime, The Child in Yellow, Ice Cream Man, Evil Nun and Ice Sport. Patil mentioned police had already despatched a report back to govt looking for a ban on these 5 video games.“A request was despatched to govt to ban these 5 video games. As of now, we are attempting to recuperate the opposite cellphone that the women’ father had offered off three months in the past. We additionally must scan the social media exercise of the women,” the officer mentioned.The recovered cellphone’s YouTube historical past additionally reveals an intensive checklist of Korean and Chinese language songs, police mentioned. Aside from Korean drama and movies, the women watched Chinese language, Thai and Japanese content material. Gaming movies and cartoons additionally featured prominently, akin to Doraemon, Shinchan, PJ Masks, Masha and the Bear, Shimmer and Shine and Peppa Pig.The sisters’ rising fixation with every little thing Korean has additionally drawn consideration to their isolation and rising dependence on a web based fantasy life. The women had stopped going to high school after Covid and had few, if any, mates, changing into more and more depending on one another and on their telephones. They’d additionally began a YouTube channel in 2025 targeted on Ok-dramas and cartoon characters, which grew to greater than 2,000 followers, however was deleted about 10 days earlier than their alleged suicides.The channel, police mentioned, was eliminated after their father objected to their escalating obsession with Korean tradition.A non-public tutor, who taught them briefly, additionally advised police and relations that the women launched themselves to her with Korean names – Maria, Aliza and Cindy – and claimed they’d been adopted from Korea and China.“They had been very weak in research. After I gave them fundamental calculations, like additions and multiplications, they did not even recognise numbers. After I requested them about their Korean names, they mentioned they’d been adopted from China and Korea. I requested their father about it. He advised me about their obsession,” mentioned the tutor, who stopped educating them after a couple of periods.It was round six months in the past that Kumar had purchased two telephones for the eldest daughter and her 14-year-old half-sister, believing they’d grow to be “well-known like YouTubers”. He offered one of many telephones three months in the past, and the opposite one simply 15 days earlier than the suicides.
