The mysterious death of three sisters—aged 14, 16, and 12—who jumped from the 9th floor of a Lucknow apartment has sent shockwaves across the city. Preliminary investigations reveal a dark world of digital addiction and psychological distress. The walls of their flat were covered with pencil sketches and crossed-out words. One haunting line read, “I am very lonely. My heart is broken.”

Psychologists suggest that the repetitive crossing out of words indicates extreme mental conflict. Police suspect that the sisters were entangled in a Korean task-based “Love Game,” where participants are given dangerous challenges. In their digital world, they used Korean names like Maria, Aliza, and Cindy and identified as “Korean Princesses.” A diary entry addressed to their father stated, “Now you will realize how close those games were to me, the ones you wanted me to leave.”

The family was also reeling under severe financial pressure. Their father, a stock trader named Chetan Kumar, has a debt of over ₹2 crore. To pay bills, he had sold his daughters’ phones, and the girls had been out of school for nearly two years. Ten days before the incident, the father deleted their online accounts after discovering their addiction, but it seems the intervention came too late. Investigators are now exploring if the middle sister acted as the “Death Commander,” leading the others to the final task.