India, May 23 -- NEW DELHI

A city court on Friday pulled up the Delhi Police for "mistakenly arresting" a person in the Uttam Nagar violence case and holding him in illegal custody without evidence showing his involvement.

Additional sessions judge Shivani Bansal of Dwarka courts passed the order immediately releasing the accused, Imran alias Bunty, from jail after observing that he was not involved in the offence.

On March 4, a minor girl from victim Tarun Kumar's family was playing Holi at her house in Uttam Nagar, when a coloured water balloon fell on a woman from a different community. A dispute started when the water splashed on the woman's clothes and several members of her family gathered and allegedly assaulted Tarun and his fa...