'One wanted to jump, other two were holding her back': Mystery around Ghaziabad sisters deepens after eyewitness recalls horror

The father said that the family was unaware of what the girls were going through

• Three sisters died after falling from a ninth-floor balcony in Ghaziabad.
• A suicide note detailed their gaming and mobile phone activities.
• Police are investigating possible addiction to an online Korean task-based game.

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A fresh account has emerged in the Ghaziabad triple suicide case, suggesting that while one of the three minor sisters was determined to jump from the ninth floor of their apartment, the other two tried to stop her, but all three eventually fell to their deaths.

Pakhi (12), Prachi (14) and Vishika (16) jumped from the balcony of their ninth-floor residence in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad around 2.15 am on Wednesday. A neighbour has claimed that he witnessed the incident from his own balcony.

The sisters left behind an eight-page suicide note written in a pocket diary, detailing their gaming and mobile phone activities. The note read: “Is diary me jo kuch bhi likha hai woh sab padh lo kyuki ye sab sach hai (Read everything written in this diary because all of it is true.) Read now. I'm really sorry. Sorry, Papa.” The note ended with a hand-drawn crying emoji. Police are investigating claims that the girls were addicted to an online Korean task-based game.

Arun Singh, a resident of Bharat City in Ghaziabad, said he stepped onto his balcony around 2 am before going to bed when he noticed someone sitting on a balcony across the building, apparently attempting to jump.

“I couldn't figure out if it was a man or a woman since I was standing at a distance. I called my wife and said that someone was trying to jump and I should do something. My partner suggested that it must be a marital dispute,” Singh said in an interview with NDTV.

He said that shortly after, another person came and tried to pull the individual sitting on the railing back inside.

“I thought it was a couple; a man trying to jump while the wife was trying to stop him,” he added.

Singh said the person climbed onto the ledge again after a few minutes.

“A small girl came and hugged the person sitting on the railing tightly. Before I could get my phone and call someone to stop the person from jumping, all three – the person sitting on the railing and two girls trying to pull them down – fell off the balcony. One of them seemed determined to jump while the two others were trying to save them, but all three fell headfirst,” Singh said.

He said he rushed to the ground floor and called the police and an ambulance, claiming that emergency services took nearly an hour to arrive.

“In a country where pizza, burgers, and groceries are delivered in 10 minutes, it took an ambulance an hour to arrive. It is a sad reality,” he said, adding that he made multiple calls and was asked the same questions repeatedly.

Singh said he did not know the girls or their family personally.

Police said the sisters had gone to the balcony, bolted the door from inside, and jumped out of a window. Their screams and the sound of their bodies hitting the ground woke their parents, neighbours and security guards in the Bharat City housing complex. By the time the parents broke open the balcony door, it was too late.

Investigators said the window ledge was around four feet high from the floor and that the girls allegedly used a two-step ladder to climb onto the railing. The probe is currently focused on the suicide note and the diary referenced in it.

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