Hindu woman and minor Hindu girl went missing in Bangladesh amidst rampant persecution of Hindu community

Case ID : b1c5d64 | Location : Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Tue, 30 September, 2025

Case ID : b1c5d64

Bangladesh

30 September, 2025

Hindu woman and minor Hindu girl went missing in Bangladesh amidst rampant persecution of Hindu community

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Bangladesh, a 15-year-old Hindu girl and a Hindu woman went missing amidst the rising persecution of the Hindu community in the country. According to reports, the minor girl is identified as Aduri Rani. She is a resident of Gaibandha, Bangladesh. She was last seen attending Durga Puja celebrations and had been missing since the beginning of October 2025. Aduri’s family stated that she had been stalked and harassed for months by a local Muslim youth, Shipul Mia, before she disappeared. Witnesses confirmed that Shipul Mia had abducted her. Despite this, no arrests were made, and no serious search efforts were undertaken by the authorities. The Hindu woman who went missing is identified as Rimi Modhu, a resident of Amgram in Madaripur District. She was last seen on 12th October 2025 at her in-laws’ house in Jolirpar Talbari. Rimi’s sudden disappearance left her family in a state of anguish and uncertainty. Media reports further stated that in Bangladesh, when Hindu women go missing, they are often later declared ''dead by suicide” by the authorities. This is a convenient narrative that avoids any genuine investigation and shields the perpetrators from accountability. This case serves as a stark reminder of the continued persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, which has only increased manifold since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024. After her violent ouster, Bangladesh plunged into chaos as Islamist extremists took advantage of the political turmoil to unleash a wave of terror and violence against the Hindu community. The Islamist mobs have attacked Hindu homes, burned them to the ground, and abducted women in a horrific descent into anarchy. Several temples have been destroyed in various parts of the Islamic country in a major crackdown on Hindus. Reports have exposed how Muslim students forced around 60 Hindu teachers, professors, and government officials to resign. Exiled Bangladeshi activist Asad Noor has also revealed that the minority Hindu community is now being coerced into joining ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’. Hindu religious events have been repeatedly targeted. On 6th September, a procession carrying Lord Ganesha’s idol was attacked in Chittagong. Ahead of Durga Puja, multiple incidents of idol vandalism occurred, including attacks in Mymensingh, Pabna, Rajshahi, Kishoreganj, and Dhaka. On 29th November, a violent Muslim mob attacked three temples in Patharghata, Chittagong, immediately after Jumma Namaz. The crackdown on Hindu voices has also escalated. On 30th November, Hindu journalist Munni Saha was arrested in Dhaka. Muslim mob attacks have increased in Bangladesh, for example, on 22nd May 2025, a Muslim mob carried out arson attacks selectively on Hindu homes in Dahar Mashihati village in Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore district of Bangladesh. Even ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu and his aides have been targeted, and attempts have been made to ban ISKCON and suppress Hindu protests through sedition charges. These arbitrary actions point to a systematic pattern of persecution under Muhammad Yunus’s interim government.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Attack not resulting in death. The subcategory selected is- Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. In this case, while the available details do not explicitly indicate a religious motive behind the crime, the broader context cannot be ignored. When there is an ongoing ethnic cleansing based on religious identity, every crime in and of itself is assumed to be motivated by the same religious animosity, even if there is a lack of a specific religious marker in the immediate crime. During an ongoing ethnic cleansing, the dehumanisation of people based on their religious identity and the normalisation of religious hostility drive the crimes committed against them, even when there is a lack of stated religious motive. For the purpose of documenting the 2024 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh, the Hinduphobia Tracker is assuming religious motivation ab initio. If a case is specifically and beyond a reasonable doubt proven to be driven by motivations other than religious hostility, it will post-facto be removed from the hate crime database. Since the political exile of Sheikh Hasina on 5th August 2024, the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh has intensified to an alarming level. In her absence, radical Islamist groups descended onto the streets, unleashing a violent rampage against the Hindu population. Hindus were attacked and killed for their religious identity; their homes, shops, and temples were desecrated; and countless Hindu women were abducted, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam. Even Hindu men and young children have not been spared. What is unfolding in Bangladesh is an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing — an attempt to systematically erase the Hindu community from its ancestral land. Amidst this heightened environment of terror, a minor Hindu girl, Aduri Rani, became a victim of targeted harassment. Aduri, a resident of Gaibandha, was relentlessly stalked and harassed by a local Muslim youth, Shipul Mia, for months leading up to her disappearance. Considering the context of religious persecution, this was not a random act of personal aggression or desire. The harassment was driven by deep-seated religious animosity, a reflection of the belief that intimidating Hindu women dishonours their families and community. In such cases, the sexual harassment and abduction of a Hindu girl is used as a deliberate tool of dominance — to humiliate Hindus collectively and instil fear and powerlessness within the community. Similarly, Rimi Modhu, a Hindu woman from Amgram in the Madaripur District, mysteriously went missing on 12th October 2025 from her in-laws’ home in Jolirpar Talbari. Her sudden disappearance, under the prevailing wave of anti-Hindu violence, raises serious concerns about her safety and the possibility that she, too, was targeted for her faith. Since Sheikh Hasina’s exile, Hindu women have faced the worst atrocities — they have been raped, kidnapped, gang-raped, assaulted, forcibly converted to Islam, or compelled into marriages with Muslim men. In this violent climate, Rimi’s disappearance cannot be viewed as coincidental but as part of the wider persecution faced by Hindu women in Bangladesh. Media reports also state that when Hindu women go missing, authorities in Bangladesh often dismiss these cases under fabricated causes such as “suicide.” This practice conveniently prevents meaningful investigations and protects the perpetrators. Such a pattern exposes the systematic discrimination within law enforcement and demonstrates how the State apparatus perpetuates injustice against Hindu victims. It denies Hindu women their right to protection and justice solely because of their religious identity. Given this pattern of targeted violence, deliberate negligence by authorities, and the clear religious motive underlying such crimes, these incidents meet the parameters of religiously motivated hate crimes. Hence, both cases — the disappearance of Aduri Rani and Rimi Modhu — are being recorded in the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker as part of the continuing pattern of persecution and violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. Disclaimer: The report states that Rimi Modhu went missing on 12th October 2025 from her in-laws’ residence. It also mentions that Aduri Rani has been missing since the beginning of October 2025 after being stalked and harassed by a local Muslim youth. Based on the available information, 1st October 2025 is being taken as the indicative date of the incident for documentation purposes only. In this record, both cases — that of Rimi Modhu and Aduri Rani — are being documented collectively. In the case of Rimi Modhu, the identity and number of perpetrators remain unknown as no reliable information has yet been established. However, in the case of Aduri Rani, the perpetrator has been identified as a local Muslim youth responsible for stalking and abducting her. For the purpose of documentation, the perpetrator is being recorded as a 'Muslim extremist', with the perpetrator count noted as '1', referring to the identified Muslim accused.