Late on Friday night, a blast near the boundary wall of the Vasundhara Police outpost in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram area damaged window panes and left a food delivery person with minor injuries. The explosion, reported around the perimeter of the outpost under Indirapuram Police station, drew an immediate multi-agency response.
By Saturday, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), bomb disposal teams and forensic experts were on the ground. At the same time, police examined a social media post claiming responsibility in the name of “Tehrik Ul Mujahideen,” also rendered in some posts as Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan or Tehreek-e-Mujahideen-e-Hindustan.
The blast hit right up against the outpost boundary wall. A sub-inspector and the delivery rider (Vishal) were on site at the time. Vishal sustained some minor injuries, which were immediately attended to; no other casualties. Authorities are still assessing the blast level. The whole outpost has been cordoned off so the local police, bomb disposal squad, and ATS forensics can enter and collect evidence without interference.
Ghaziabad Police Commissioner J Ravindra Gaur visited the site with other senior officers. “The ongoing investigation will include all facts and will form the basis of the findings,” he told the media. He confirmed that a delivery person had sustained minor injuries and that evidence from the scene had been collected. Forensic teams gathered samples and sent them to the Agra laboratory. Investigators also began reviewing CCTV footage from cameras covering the approaches to the Vasundhara outpost.
Authorities are reviewing the social media post (apparently shared via an account referred to in the reports as “Ghazi 2” or “Gazi 2”). The post claimed the blast had been carried out by an organisation called Tehrik Ul Mujahideen (or Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan).
The claim, as reported at the time, stated that the group had targeted the police as an act of resistance against what they described as the “saffron government”, and that they had a right to defend their homes, their places of worship, their faith and their culture and went on to issue further threats.
The police haven’t validated the post or confirmed that any such organisation was behind the attack. Cyber and forensics teams are examining the digital footprint.
The name in the claim has drawn interest, as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned a separate organisation, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), in February 2019 under the UAPA. TuM was formed in 1990 and operated primarily in J&K with the stated objective of ‘liberation of Kashmir’. It was involved in several terrorist attacks, grenade attacks and provided logistical support to other banned organisations. It had links in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The entity claiming responsibility for the Ghaziabad blast does not appear to be “Tehrik Ul Mujahideen Hindustan” as such in the existing counter-terror databases.
Security agencies are looking into whether there is any operational or ideological link with the banned TuM, or whether it is a new/fabricated entity being used as a front to mislead investigators. No link has been established yet.
The fact that the ATS, bomb disposal and local police are all present indicates how seriously the matter of what device was used and whether it was a terrorist device is being taken. With samples en route to Agra, CCTV analysis in progress, and the online claim still unconfirmed, the investigation is largely based on physical evidence, lab results, and online verification.
Commissioner Gaur and the various police teams are still working on it on Saturday, saying their conclusions will be based on the facts they recover rather than unverified social media claims. No suspects have been identified, and the injured rider is reportedly suffering from simple injuries. Officials said they will provide further updates once the forensic and cyber investigation is complete.