Muslim family murdered by Bajrang Dal in UP? Video from Pakistan viral with false claim

Trigger Warning: Disturbing Details, Mention of Dead Bodies 

The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in question in view of the extremely graphic nature of the footage. 

A video is being widely shared on WhatsApp in which the bodies of seven children and a middle-aged woman can be seen lying on the floor of a room soaked in blood. A living person is also seen lying near the body of a child on a cot. Women can be heard wailing. It is being claimed that in some area of Uttar Pradesh, members of RSS and Bajrang Dal entered Muslim homes and slaughtered people.

Alt News has received at least 30 requests on its WhatsApp helpline (+917600011160) to verify the footage and the accompanying claim. In some cases, an audio clip is also viral along with the video where it is claimed that, “Bajrang Dal workers are killing Muslims in UP’s Manshurpur area. They have killed everyone, young or old, of the entire family. Before that, 50 people were killed in Adampur, Rasoolpur, Budanpur and Mamoonpur. There is mourning in homes and people have lost their sleep.”

X User Urooj Fatima shared the viral video and linked it to a theft incident taking place in Amroha district of UP.

Fact Check

A reverse image search of the frames of the viral video led us to a website named livegore.com on April 11, 2024. It was reported that in a gruesome incident in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a poverty-stricken man killed his wife and seven children with an axe because he could not feed them.

Apart from this, X user Mahjabeen shared a video on April 12, 2024, and wrote that a tragic incident happened in Alipur, where a man killed his wife and seven children with an axe. 

On performing a keyword search based on the above information, we found news reports from paliwalwani.com and NDTV World. According to the reports, Sajjad Khokhar, a labourer in Alipur in Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh district, killed his 42-year-old wife and his seven children, including four daughters and three sons aged between eight months and 10 years. Sajjad had reportedly confessed to his crime and was arrested.

In the reports, police are quoted as saying that the accused said that he had killed his family because he could not feed his children. It was also told that the accused was ‘mentally disturbed’ due to financial constraints and often quarreled with his wife.

During our investigation, we also found a tweet by UP police from July 21, 2025, in which they termed as misleading the claim that ‘Bajrang Dal men were entering homes Muslims and killing them’.

UP police also said that the video was of an incident in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, in the year 2024. Three individuals had been arrested for spreading rumours. 

Zero Tolerance Against Crime –

जनपद मुजफ्फरनगर में, पाकिस्तान के मुजफ्फरगढ़ में वर्ष 2024 में घटित घटना के वीडियो, जिसमें एक व्यक्ति ने अपनी पत्नी व अपने 07 बच्चों की कुल्हाड़ी से काटकर हत्या कर दी थी, को भ्रामक रूप से मुरादाबाद का बताकर इस कथन के साथ विभिन्न व्हाट्सएप ग्रुपों… pic.twitter.com/9hwWgQsHij

— UP POLICE (@Uppolice) July 21, 2025

So, to sum up, the viral video is from Pakistan where a man suffering from a financial crisis reportedly killed his entire family in April, 2024. The claims of this being an incident from UP and Bajrang Dal workers being involved are also entirely false.