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An incident occurred on February 4, 2026, at Bharat City Society in Ghaziabad, where three minor sisters: Nishika (16), Prachi (14), and Pakhi (12) committed suicide by jumping from their 9th-floor balcony. Three sisters wake up in the middle of the night, walk into another room and jump off their balcony, and the entire blame is put on the Korean games they play. According to the girl's father, Chetan, these girls took their lives because they were obsessed with Korean culture and games and could not handle any discipline. Deeply obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, they rejected their Indian identities entirely, adopting the names Maria, Aliza, and Cindy. They stopped responding to their birth names and filled their diaries with claims that they were "Korean princesses." One note poignantly stated, "Korea is our life."

He also says that the girls were quite upset after he deleted their YouTube channel and took their phone away, but what he very conveniently left out is how suffocating their household was. Chetan had two wives (Both sisters), 5 children, a maternal aunt and all of them lived under one roof. He also had a debt of Rs 2 crore since COVID, which made the house mentally and financially vulnerable. These three sisters were not attending school for three years now. Now imagine the extent of loneliness three adolescents will feel when they have no friends, no school. If you still have any doubt, then look at these images.

These are the scribblings on the walls of their room. “Broken heart” “I am very very lonely.” These are the words of 12, 14 and 16-year-old girls. Shocking right. So over the years, these girls made peace with their circumstances. In fact, they found refuge in a fictional far-off culture and got obsessed with it. Yes, they indeed used to play Korean games all day long. In fact, they gave each other Korean names too. So in order to discipline them. This is from their diary- “The mention of marriage caused tension in our hearts”. The family started threatening them with marriage. In fact, their father, Chetan, deleted their YouTube channel and also sold their phone. And just like that, these girls lost the last hope of ever getting out of the dystopian reality they were living in. On 4th Feb, around 1 am they left their mothers side, went to another room, locked it from inside and jumped from the balcony one by one and all they left behind are some childhood photos scattered on the floor, a diary a suicide note addressed to their father.

Now, if a child writes- ‘Death is better than your beatings. That is why we are committing suicide’, the girls wrote this in her diary she is not throwing a tantrum she is planning an escape. These girls are being misunderstood even after their death. The entire case is brushed off as online addiction when it is a clear case of social-emotional neglect. And that's exactly why we all need to talk about it.

Most headlines rushed to blame screen addiction, K-dramas, Korean culture, phones, and gaming. The narrative is neat. Familiar. Comfortable. It gives us a villain we don't have to look too closely at. What's being repeatedly mentioned is that the girls were "not doing so well academically" before they dropped out of school in 2020. What's not being interrogated with the same urgency is whether there were warning signs we failed to recognise. Multiple credible reports have confirmed there is no suicide note and no conclusive evidence linking their deaths to fandom or online content. And yet, entire communities are being blamed instead of systems being questioned.

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