Ghaziabad sisters' suicide: 3 wives and a partner? Triple-death case gets murkier as new details emerge about family dynamics

The girls died by suicide on Wednesday

• Three minor sisters died after jumping from a ninth-floor building in Ghaziabad.
• Police link deaths to emotional distress, family discord, and phone confiscation.
• Investigators found a suicide note and signs of strong attachment to Korean culture.

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Ghaziabad police, investigating the deaths of three minor sisters who jumped from the ninth floor of their residential building earlier this week have revealed new details about the case. Preliminary findings suggest emotional distress linked to family issues and the confiscation of their mobile phones may have played a role.

The sisters, Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12), died after jumping from a tower in Bharat City Society, under the Trans-Hindon police station area. Officers said their father, Chetan Kumar, had taken away the girls’ mobile phones after noticing what he believed was an excessive attachment to Korean culture.

The case got even murkier on Saturday after distressing details surfaced. According to PTI, police have confirmed that Kumar currently has three wives, Sujata, Heena and Tina, all of whom are biological sisters. Sujata is Nishika’s mother, while Heena is the mother of Prachi and Pakhi. Investigators noted that the three girls appeared to be more attached to their father than to their mothers. This, they said, was reflected in the suicide note, which addressed the father but did not mention the mother.

Cyber crime teams are attempting to trace the buyers who purchased the confiscated mobile phones using the IMEI numbers so that data related to the Korean applications can be retrieved, said DCP (Trans-Hindon) Nimish Patil. “The case is being probed from multiple angles,” he added.

Police are also examining the family’s past. In 2015, Kumar’s live-in partner died under suspicious circumstances after falling from the roof of a flat in Rajendra Nagar Colony, under the Sahibabad police station area. The police had later treated the death as a suicide.

Preliminary findings, including a nine-page pocket diary recovered from the sisters’ room, point to an intense attachment to Korean culture and possible family discord, officials said. One mobile phone had been bought for Nishika around three months ago, while another was purchased for Prachi about 15 days before the incident.

The three sisters were cremated at Delhi’s Nigam Bodh Ghat on Wednesday evening.