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Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE: Vehicles set on fire, streets choked with protests amid tensions

 Live. By. Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: To prevent tensions in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar amid ongoing protests, security has been heightened to maintain law and order situation. Dwarka district DCP Kushal Pal Singh said that police have appealed people of both the communities to maintain peace and order.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The father of Tarun Kumar, who died in the clashes that erupted in Uttam Nagar on Holi, staged a sit-in protest outside the Uttam Nagar Police Station in New Delhi on Friday.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The festival of Holi took a grim turn in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area earlier this week after a man was killed when two families from different communities clashed over a water balloon thrown by a minor. The clashes sparked on the night of Holi on Wednesday, March 4, when an 11-year-old from a Hindu family was throwing water balloons from her terrace on passers by below, one of which hit a Muslim woman, to which the latter objected.. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, enraged over the death, gathered around the Muslim family’s home in an alleged attempt to attack, Hindustan Times reported earlier citing a police official who asked not to be identified.. …Read More. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, 

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