Bulldozers And Barricades Descend On Uttam Nagar After Holi Clash

One week after the alleged-killing of 26-year-old Tarun Kumar who was attacked after a Holi altercation, the JJ Colony in Uttam Nagar now remains heavily barricaded, with police and CRPF personnel stationed across the area and riot-control vehicles positioned at intervals. More than a dozen arrests have been made following the clash. The three-storied house of the accused has been partly bulldozed, while residents, living in a neighbourhood that is palpably tensed, stressed that the incident was a local dispute and not a communal clash. Outside Tarun’s house, over a dozen women surround his mother, trying to offer comfort as the neighbourhood struggled to make sense of what escalated into the deadly confrontation.

Updated on: 11 March 2026 3:54 pm

Published at: 11 March 2026 3:54 pm

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Tarun Kumar’s mother, Sunita, sitting outside her home in Uttam Nagar, Delhi, surrounded by women who had come to comfort her after her son’s alleged killing. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

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Tarun Kumar’s mother, Sunita, speaking to an Outlook reporter, recounting the incidents on Holi that escalated into the alleged killing of her son. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook