Minor Hindu girls brutally killed and their bodies mutilated in Muzaffarpur, Bihar

Case ID : 30a85d6 | Location : Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 10 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a85d6

Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

10 May, 2026

Minor Hindu girls brutally killed and their bodies mutilated in Muzaffarpur, Bihar

Undecided cases

Abduction of minor

Attacked/Killed for Hindu identity

Case Summary

Two Hindu minor girls, 12-year-old Mausami and 7-year-old Ruchi, cousins from Ward Number 6 of Maksudpur Panchayat, Rampur Hari police station area, Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, were found murdered near a brick kiln approximately 500 metres from their home on 13 May 2026. The girls had gone to watch a puja [devotional worship offered to Hindu deities through rituals involving flowers, incense, lamps, and prayers] in their village on 11 May 2026 and did not return home by late that evening. Family members conducted extensive searches after the girls failed to return and subsequently reported their disappearance to the Rampur Hari police station. The bodies of both girls were discovered by villagers near a brick kiln approximately 48 hours after their disappearance. The bodies were found in a mutilated condition. The discovery caused immediate panic and widespread outrage among villagers, who gathered at the scene upon learning of the deaths. No arrests were confirmed at the time of publication. The perpetrators remained unidentified. Police were investigating the matter.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This incident has been added to the Undecided database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. The murder of two Hindu minor girls in Muzaffarpur raises serious concerns that warrant documentation, but the available evidence does not permit a definitive characterisation of the case as a religiously motivated hate crime at this stage. The confirmed facts establish that Mausami, aged 12, and Ruchi, aged 7, left their home on 11 May 2026 to attend a puja in their village and were found dead near a brick kiln approximately 500 metres from their home 48 hours later. Their bodies were found in a mutilated condition. The circumstances of their disappearance and death, two minor girls abducted from a public religious event and murdered within close proximity to their home, are deeply concerning and warrant immediate documentation. The religious dimension of this case is contextual rather than confirmed. The girls were Hindu minors who were attending a Hindu religious event at the time of their disappearance. These facts are noted by the tracker but cannot, on the available evidence, establish that their Hindu identity was the specific motivation for the attack. The perpetrators remain unidentified at the time of publication, and without perpetrator identification, no religious motivation can be assessed or confirmed. The cause and full circumstances of the murders remained under investigation at the time of publication. No arrests had been made, and no suspect had been identified. Until the investigation produces confirmed findings regarding the identity and motivation of the perpetrators, the religious character of the targeting cannot be established. Given the unidentified perpetrators, the absence of confirmed religious motivation, and the ongoing nature of the police investigation, this case has been categorised under the Undecided database. If any further investigation confirms that the victims were targeted for their faith, then it will be added to the hate crime database.