Ghaziabad triple suicide: Did father of three sisters lie about third marriage and oldest daughter's age?

Contradicting statements from the father, neighbors and family members of the three sisters who jumped to their deaths from their flat in Ghaziabad have complicated the case further.

Chetan Kumar, the father of the three sisters who died by suicide after an obsession with a Korean mobile task-based game have now been questioned up to three times by the police.

DCP Hindon Nimish Patil, who spoke to Amar Ujala, said that the authorities are examining the exact cause which led to the girls taking the extreme step.

Police discovered that the oldest sister, Nishika, 16, had only gone to school until fourth standard. Prachi, 14, studied until the third standard, and Pakhi, 12, till second standard. Their father had said that he was unable to send them to school due to financial constraints. However, the children were not admitted to a government school as an alternative.

Locals in the area have claimed that the sisters regularly attended coaching classes, but who was tutoring them, and on what, is unclear. Family members and parents were also not able to give details of the schools the sisters studied in.

In a recent report, police confirmed that the sisters were able to read and write after receiving a basic education. They also believe that Prachi, the middle sister, was the one who wrote the suicide notes. The notes have been sent to experts for further examination.

Chetan Kumar said that he had confiscated their mother's mobile phone his daughters used about three days before their deaths. The children who were out of school for the past two years and were addicted to a Korean task-based love game all jumped from their flat on the ninth floor after midnight earlier this week.

The police said that they did not find any Korean games or apps and relating evidence from the device after a forensic examination.

Three wives and land ownership

Authorities have also discovered that Chetan has three brothers, two of them live in Shalimar city and one in Delhi. Their parents are deceased and left behind two plots of 700 and 70 yards in Khajuri, Delhi. Despite owning land, Chetan Kumar had left the village and come to Ghaziabad after his first marriage in 2010.

The father had claimed that the oldest daughter, Nishka’s mother, was Sujata, his first wife, whom he married in 2006. Kumar had told authorities that he had later married his sister-in-law, Heena, in 2009, because he was unable to have children with Sujata. However, police records show that his marriage to Heena, who is the mother of Prachi and Pakhi, took place in 2013.

Based on this claim, there is a discrepancy in Nishika’s age, who would actually only be 12 or 13 years old at most.

One of the notes found inside the sister's room referred to Tina, who was earlier belived to be Chetan's sister-in-law as ‘Mummy’, raising questions.

Police have now confirmed that Chetan also married Tina, Heena’s sister, about five years ago in a court ceremony. All three of his wives are biological sisters.

Police also confirmed that Debu, the fourth daughter, was from Heena. 

Investigators say that the three children were more attached to their father than to their mothers.

Family history

In 2015, Chetan's live-in-partner died under suspicious circumstances after falling from a roof of a flat at Rajendra Nagar Colony in Sahibad polcie station area. Police had dismissed the case as suicide, PTI reported.

In May 2025, his wives, Sujata and Heena, left the house after a heated argument. Chetan filed a missing persons report for the both of them. However, the two returned after a few days. The neighbour reported hearing a loud argument, following which the sisters left. They also said that Chetan had to change his flat after the incident.

In a police statement, Chetan had claimed that he had only Rs 10-20 lakh in debt when he actually had claimed a loss of 2 crore rupees in share trading.

Chetan had also recently got mobile phones for the two older sisters six months ago. Police are now investigating the mobile phones that were gifted to the two older sisters, Nishika and Prachi. Chetan had claimed that he had confiscated the phones due to their addiction and had sold them four months ago.

The police are searching for the phones using their IMEI numbers.

Police are currently investigating the mobile phones and waiting for forensic and handwriting experts’ reports from the forensic science lab.

The sisters were cremated at Delhi's Nigam Bodh Ghat on Wednesday.