Ghaziabad suicides: Cops find second YouTube channel run by sisters

Ghaziabad: Police investigating the alleged suicides of three sisters in Bharat City have found that the girls had been running an earlier YouTube channel since 2023 — separate from the one they launched in 2025 and which their father deleted about 10 days before their deaths.

The older channel, created on July 23, 2023, surfaced during a two-hour questioning of their father, Chetan Kumar. When police checked his phone, they found the channel in his YouTube search history. The channel is still active.





The three sisters — aged 16, 14 and 12 — were found lying next to each other on the society premises directly below their ninth-floor window on Feb 4. They were taken to hospital and declared dead on arrival.

Police said the 2023 channel, titled ‘JC Editz', had 37 subscribers and was operated from Kumar's phone. An officer said Kumar told cops he had "forgotten" about the channel, which is why it remained active.

Police said the channel carried 24 videos featuring Korean and Chinese content, though 17 videos were later deleted by the girls for reasons the father said he did not know. The channel also had 17 Shorts. The most viewed, titled ‘AL Nazer', drew 5.1k views. The channel's total views stand at 13,367, police said, adding that the last upload was about two months ago.

Cops said the sisters later created a second YouTube channel in mid-2025, this time with their father's support. Kumar told police he helped set it up, hoping they would become "famous like other YouTubers". The channel grew to more than 2,000 followers, but he deleted it around 10 days before the incident after he felt the girls were becoming increasingly obsessed with Korean culture, police said.

A senior officer said Kumar described the sisters as "living in their own world" and repeatedly expressing a desire to go to Korea after consuming reels and other online content. The girls made videos about Korea and cartoon characters, sometimes portraying themselves as "royal" figures such as Elsa and Cinderella.

The phones the sisters used have become central to the investigation. Police said Kumar bought two handsets about six months ago for the eldest daughter and her 14-year-old half-sister. He then sold one of the devices three months ago and the other about 15 days before the deaths. On Sunday, police recovered one of the sold phones from a mobile shop in Shalimar Garden and retrieved incremental data.

Data recovered so far shows the sisters spent more than 20 hours a day on the phone. Their YouTube history included extensive Korean and Chinese songs, along with Korean dramas and films, and other Asian content. Police also found viewing and gaming material that the sisters mentioned in their suicide note, including horror games such as Poppy Playtime, The Baby in Yellow, Ice Cream Man, Evil Nun and Ice Game.