‘Here’s proof of our love for K-Pop’: Ghaziabad sisters’ final note lays bare heartbreak, isolation and a silent cry for help

The haunting line — “Here’s proof of our love for K-Pop” — forms the opening of a suicide note recovered after three minor sisters jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor of their apartment building in Ghaziabad, police said recently.

The handwritten note, now a crucial part of the investigation, lays bare the sisters’ intense emotional attachment to Korean pop culture and entertainment, alongside repeated apologies to their family and expressions of feeling misunderstood, overwhelmed and cornered at home.

The victims, aged 12, 14 and 16, died in the early hours of February 4 after allegedly leaping from their residential building. Initial speculation linked the incident to an unidentified Korean task-based gaming application, but police have since ruled out any such app, clarifying that the girls were influenced primarily by Korean pop culture, music and television content.

According to police sources, the note — running several pages — described Korean actors and K-pop artists as central to the girls’ emotional lives. It spoke of a deep sense of belonging to that world and distress over feeling disconnected from their immediate surroundings.

“We loved Korean pop music very deeply. We’re sorry. You may not have understood how much it meant to us, but it was a huge part of our lives,” the note said.

“At times, it felt like that world mattered more to us than anything else around us.”

The sisters also wrote about emotional confusion and stress over future expectations, including marriage, and apologized directly to their father.

“The thought of marrying an Indian and not a Korean brought us stress and confusion… We’re sorry, Papa,” the note read.

Investigators revealed that the girls had not attended school for the past two years and largely remained indoors. During this period, they created a social media account that amassed a significant following, using Western-sounding names such as Aliza, Cindy and Maria.

Police said their father, Chetan Kumar, a forex trader, discovered the account about 10 days before the incident. He allegedly deleted the account and confiscated their phones — a move investigators believe deeply upset the sisters, cutting them off from the content and online world they were emotionally invested in.

The case is now under scrutiny on multiple fronts, including questions over prolonged absence from school, digital dependency, and the family’s internal dynamics. Kumar lives with two wives — who are sisters — and their five children, including the three girls who died.

There is also uncertainty over the final moments before the tragedy. While some reports suggested that two sisters jumped together holding hands and the third jumped separately, a witness was quoted as saying by India Today TV that two appeared to be attempting to jump while the third was trying to pull them back, possibly in an effort to stop them.

Police say the investigation remains ongoing, as they attempt to piece together the sequence of events and the emotional pressures that culminated in the devastating loss of three young lives.