LUCKNOW, March 16 -- This year's Holi celebrations, which coincided with the Friday prayers during the ongoing Ramzan month, were largely peaceful barring a few stray incidents of confrontation and violence in some districts, senior police officials said here on Saturday.

While the incidents of stone pelting by revelers during Holi processions were reported from Shahjahanpur and Unnao, some drunk men created nuisance in a Ballia village on Friday.

In Shahjahanpur, a group of revelers, who were part of the famous Laat Saab procession, pelted police personnel accompanying the procession after a confrontation near Kharnibagh locality with stones on Friday afternoon. The police force resorted to baton-charge to disperse the mob. The trouble...