The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Sunday carried out a demolition drive against a property linked to one of the accused in the Uttam Nagar Holi clash case, in which a 26-year-old man was killed, according to news reports citing police sources.

Heavy police and paramilitary deployment was in place in the area during the operation to maintain law and order. A senior police officer said the locality had been divided into zones, sectors and sub-sectors as part of the security arrangement, news reports said.

Civic officials arrived with bulldozers and demolished only the illegally constructed portions of the structure, not the entire house, according to police sources quoted in news reports. Officials from the MCD were not immediately available for comment.

The action was taken against a property linked to one of the accused in the case, identified in reports as Nizamuddin.