Ghaziabad, Feb. 5 -- In the hours after three half-sisters jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor of their apartment in Ghaziabad, investigators began piecing together a portrait of a family that lived together but rarely connected - and of three girls who, police said, had slowly withdrawn not only from the world outside but even from their own family. An eight-page suicide note recovered from the apartment has revealed that the girls did not "like" their half-brother or other family members, investigators aware of the case details said, because they felt no one around them understood their deep fascination with Korean culture. Investigators said the sisters were so immersed in K-dramas and K-pop. They had abandoned their given names and took on monikers of Aliza, Cindy, and Maria, which investigators said they used consistently within their self-contained world. The three girls - aged 16, 14 and 11 - died after falling nine floors from their flat in Ghaziabad's Bharat City at 2am on Wednesday. "The girls had completely internalised this alternate identity," said a senior police officer familiar with the investigation. "In the note, they repeatedly mention how no one - not their brother, not other family members - understood their love for Korea." The officer said the note explicitly stated that the girls did not like their half-brother, referring to him only as "bhai", and complained that he and other family members failed to respect their interests. "They had a single phone which they used to watch shows. They also had a TV which they used to watch K-drama and movies. They wrote in the note that they liked Korea, China, Japan and Thailand, and that they liked people from those places. They were upset that they could not go and live there." Police said the family structure itself was very complicated. The father, a stock market trader who also runs a small shop in a sabzi mandi, has children from two marriages. The eldest girl, 16, and a 13-year-old son are children from his first marriage. The girls aged 14 and 11 were born to his second wife, who is also the younger sister of his first wife, officers said. A four-year-old girl also lives in the house. Investigators aware of the case details said she is allegedly the child of a third wife, who is another sister of the first two women. Officers said this aspect of the case is still being verified. "The dynamics in the household were complex. All the family members lived together in a 3BHK flat," said Alok Priyadarshi, additional commissioner of police. Investigators said the three sisters were inseparable. "They bathed together, ate together, slept together, and even went to the washroom together," the father told police during questioning. Ravi Balyan, station house officer of Tila Morh police station, said the 14-year-old appeared to be the dominant figure. "She was the 'leader'. If she skipped a meal, the other two also wouldn't eat. They spent entire days together," he said, adding that she wrote the suicide note. The girls had little interaction with others, including their brother. They did not attend school, rarely stepped out, and had no known friends in the neighbourhood. "They did not have a social life at all," an officer said. Police said the sisters had stopped going to school around 2020. The eldest had studied till Class 7, the middle one till Class 5, and the youngest till Class 3. Before that, the eldest had briefly attended a school in Nainital. Investigators believe tensions escalated in the days leading up to the incident after their father restricted their access to phones and the internet. The girls shared a single mobile phone, which they used to watch K-dramas. Police said the father sold the phone for Rs.3,500 -possibly due to mounting financial stress - and had also forced them to delete a social media account with around 2,000 followers about 10 days earlier. "This angered them deeply," an officer said. "Their online world was everything to them." Residents of a high-rise society here were jolted awake around 2am on Wednesday by a crashing thud followed by screams, only to discover three teenage sisters lying lifeless after a nine-floor fall, as their distraught parents argued in front of onlookers. One resident of an adjacent tower told HT that he witnessed the final moments of what police are treating as an apparent triple suicide. Arun Kumar, who lives on the 10th floor of Tower A4, said he was on his balcony, when he noticed unusual movement in a flat across from him. "There was light fog, and the visibility wasn't very clear. I just saw figures near the window. I couldn't even make out whether it was a man or a woman," he said. "I didn't understand what was happening." But the situation became clearer a few seconds later, he said. "I now realise it was three girls. One was sitting on the window ledge. Another was holding her, and the third was trying to pull both of them inside," he said. "A few seconds later, all three fell together. There was a massive noise," he recalled. He said he called the police immediately and rushed downstairs with his wife and sister-in-law. By the time they reached the ground floor, the girls were already lifeless. Two women - the mothers of the girls - were crying uncontrollably, while the father stood nearby, Kumar said. "I heard the mother saying, 'How can you scold the children so much?' And the father shouting back, 'Why couldn't you take care of them?'" Residents said the girls appeared to have jumped from the middle of three sliding glass window panes in the apartment. "I heard a loud thud, and then wailing," said Kumar Onkareshwar, who lives in a nearby tower. "Everyone rushed out. I later went to the flat from where they jumped. The police had broken the door open." Inside the room, he said, officers found family photographs on the floor and a handwritten suicide note in a diary. "One line written there said, 'Will you stop us from going to Korea?'" Onkareshwar said. Residents described the girls as reclusive and said they rarely interacted with others in the society. "I had seen the man a few times, but the girls hardly ever came out to play," Singh said. Rahul Kumar Jha, joint secretary of the RWA, said, "We knew they liked Korean music and culture. They didn't speak much."...