Ghaziabad, Feb. 5 -- Three sisters aged 11, 14 and 16, obsessed with Korean culture and influenced by a task-based online game, died by suicide by jumping off a modified window of their ninth floor flat in a Ghaziabad high-rise in the early hours of Wednesday. Or did they? The grisly deaths of the three minor half-sisters at 2am on Wednesday left behind a puzzling trail of questions that were only compounded by their father's and the police's contradictory statements, a final message scribbled in blue ink on a piece of glass, shocking revelations in a eight-page "diary entry", the financial duress that allegedly weighed heavily on the family, and the repeated appearance of Korean culture in the narrative. Ghaziabad Police and eyewitness Arun Kumar confirmed that the three sisters - who allegedly dropped out of school three years ago as the financial situation of the family deteriorated - were seen on the ledge of the window around 2am. "One person was swinging by the edge of a window on the 9th floor, and being held on to by two others. Within minutes, all of them fell in front of his eyes. When I rushed downstairs, I saw that there were three children," said Kumar, who lives on the 10th floor in a tower that faces the girls' flat. They were taken to a hospital in Loni but were declared dead on arrival at a government hospital in Loni. No first information report was filed in the case at the time of going to print, and inquest proceedings were initiated, said Nimish Patil, DCP of trans-Hindon zone. "The autopsy was conducted by a panel of doctors and the process was completed by Wednesday evening. The report is awaited and the three bodies have been handed over to the family," deputy commissioner of police Nimish Patil said. Police said the girls lived with their 38-year-old father, who used to work as a stock market trader but recently suffered financial losses. The mother of the 16-year-old and the mother of the 11 and 14-year-old - they were sisters - lived in the house. Also in the house were an 13-year-old boy (the brother of the 16-year-old), a four-year-old girl, and her mother, who was also related to the two other mothers. Police couldn't confirm which woman was lawfully wedded to the father. Police said that the girls left behind a pocket diary with notes scribbled across eight pages, and another note in a mix of Hindi and English on a glass panel in the room from where they jumped. "Read everything written in this diary because it's the truth. Read now! I'm really sorry. Sorry, Papa," the scrawl on the glass said. When the crime was discovered in the morning, the initial investigation quickly veered towards blaming Korean online games. By evening, this theory was riddled with doubts. The police said that the phone recovered from the room was sent for forensic investigation and denied the role of any online or app-based game. ACP Atul Kumar Singh said that the girls portrayed themselves as Korean princesses, and got addicted to being online during the pandemic. The neighbours knew little about this family; the children barely played with others in the colony, and the women kept to themselves....