Ghaziabad Sisters' Korean Fantasy World Unravels in Tutor's Disturbing Account
In a tragic case that has shocked Ghaziabad, three sisters who allegedly died by suicide at their Bharat City residence last week were discovered to have been living in an elaborate fantasy world dominated by Korean culture. The girls, aged 16, 14, and 12, had recently been taken to a private tutor where they introduced themselves with Korean names—Maria, Aliza, and Cindy—and claimed they had been adopted from Korea and China.
Academic Struggles and Bizarre Claims
The tutor, who spoke to authorities, found the sisters "extremely weak" in their studies. They struggled with fundamental calculations and could not recognize basic numbers. "They were very weak in studies, but I decided to give them time because they had not been going to school since Covid," the tutor explained. "They didn't have books, so I provided them with textbooks for English, mathematics, and Hindi. When I gave them elementary calculations like additions and multiplications, they failed to recognize numbers. They couldn't even copy numbers or letters from textbooks."
Home assignments were consistently left incomplete. The tutor recounted: "I asked them to learn multiplication tables of 2 and prepare for a test the following day. However, they arrived completely unprepared. When I inquired about the reason, they gave a bizarre explanation—that they had been adopted from China and Korea. I questioned their father about this claim. He informed me about their intense fixation with everything Korean."
Isolation and Digital Fantasy Life
Due to their lack of academic focus, the tutor decided to discontinue teaching the girls approximately twenty days before their alleged suicides, returning the fees to their father, Chetan Kumar. The sisters' upbringing was characterized by profound isolation. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, they had ceased attending school and received no home tutoring either.
Deprived of friends, the siblings became increasingly dependent on each other and immersed themselves in an online fantasy life centered around Korean culture. They had even launched a YouTube channel last year focused on K-dramas and cartoon characters, accumulating over 2,000 followers. However, the channel was deleted about ten days before their deaths. Police officials revealed that the channel was removed after their father objected to what he perceived as their growing obsession with Korean culture.
Kumar allegedly told investigators that his daughters were "living in their own world" and repeatedly spoke about traveling to Korea after consuming reels and other social media content.
Police Investigation and Mobile Phone Recovery
On February 4, the three sisters were discovered lying next to each other on the society premises in Bharat City, directly beneath their ninth-floor window. They were transported to a hospital and declared dead upon arrival.
Ghaziabad police have now recovered a mobile phone that belonged to one of the sisters, marking a potential breakthrough in a case that has largely relied on the family's narrative. The handset had been sold by their father approximately fifteen days before their deaths and was seized from an electronics shop in Shalimar Garden. It has been sent for forensic examination to retrieve deleted data.
DCP (trans-Hindon) Nimish Patil disclosed that Kumar had purchased two phones around six months ago for the eldest daughter and her 14-year-old half-sister, believing they would become "famous like YouTubers." "He sold one of the phones three months ago, and the other one just 15 days before the suicides," Patil stated.
Police confirmed that the second phone was sold for Rs 15,000 at the Shalimar Garden shop, and the owner still possessed the device when officers visited on Monday. Both phones are considered crucial for verifying what content the sisters were consuming online and whether they had contact with anyone outside the family.
"All crucial data on the phone was already deleted before it was sold. Now, we have sent the mobile set to a forensic lab to recover the data, such as apps and the girls' social media accounts. If we can retrieve the information, we will learn about online friends the three girls made and how much time they spent browsing the internet. We are attempting to recover the second phone with the assistance of surveillance," Patil elaborated.
The investigation continues as authorities piece together the tragic circumstances that led to the sisters' deaths, highlighting the dangers of extreme isolation and digital fantasy worlds.
