He changed hideouts constantly, moving through the city's underworld
In the span of a single week, two acts of violence in Delhi have claimed lives and surfaced old wounds — a double stabbing in Sarai Rohilla left two family members dead despite the efforts of doctors, while the arrest of a long-fugitive attacker closed a chapter of cruelty visited upon a child in 2024. Together, these cases speak to the quiet persistence of harm within a city's ordinary streets, and to the equally quiet persistence of those who pursue accountability. Justice, here, moves at uneven speeds — sometimes arriving too late, sometimes arriving at last.
- Two men — a brother and his brother-in-law — were fatally stabbed in North Delhi, dying in hospital despite emergency care, leaving investigators with an active case and no announced suspects.
- The killings land against a backdrop of rising alarm over violent crime in Delhi, where multiple serious cases are unfolding simultaneously across different neighborhoods.
- Separately, a man named Gulzar — wanted for sixteen months after a gang assault on a minor boy involving a gun and blades — was finally trapped by a specialized police team acting on a tip in Palam Village.
- Gulzar had evaded capture by moving constantly through the city's underworld, earning a formal court designation as a proclaimed offender before his arrest on April 29.
- He has confessed, and now faces charges under child protection law carrying a minimum of twenty years — a reckoning long delayed but no longer deniable.
Two men are dead in North Delhi after a stabbing in the Sarai Rohilla area. A man and his brother-in-law were attacked and rushed to RML Hospital, where both died from their wounds. Delhi Police confirmed the deaths on May 2 and said investigators were examining every angle — motive, suspects, the sequence of events. The case remains open.
The killings arrive as the city contends with a broader pattern of violence. Two days earlier, police arrested Gulzar, 30, a man who had been a fugitive for more than a year. He was wanted for the gang assault of a minor boy on October 5, 2024 — an attack in which he held a gun to the child's head while three accomplices cut him repeatedly with blades. The boy was left unconscious and found by a neighbor. He survived, but not without lasting harm.
Three of the four attackers were caught quickly. Gulzar disappeared into the city's underworld, changing hideouts for sixteen months until a court formally declared him a proclaimed offender. A specialized team led by ACP Umesh Barthwal tracked him through phone records, informants, and surveillance footage. A tip pointed to Palam Village. Officers set a trap. Gulzar walked into it.
In interrogation, he confessed — to the assault, to the running, to the fear. A barber by trade, he now faces Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, which carries a minimum of twenty years and can extend to life or death. The two cases — one still a mystery, one a conviction waiting to happen — together trace the shape of a city where violence takes many forms, and where justice, when it comes, does not always come in time.
Two men are dead in North Delhi after a stabbing in the Sarai Rohilla area. Police say a man and his brother-in-law were attacked, then rushed to RML Hospital where doctors fought to save them through the night. Both died from their wounds. On Saturday, May 2, Delhi Police confirmed the deaths and said investigators were examining every angle of what happened—motive, suspects, the sequence of events. The case remains active, details still emerging.
The killings come as the city grapples with a broader pattern of violent crime. Just two days earlier, on April 30, police arrested a man named Gulzar, 30, who had been a fugitive for more than a year. He was wanted for a crime so brutal that it shocked the officers who worked the case: the gang assault of a minor boy in October 2024.
That assault happened on October 5, 2024. According to police records, Gulzar and three accomplices—Ajay, Neeraj, and Kamal—attacked a young boy with methodical cruelty. Gulzar held a gun to the child's head while the others used blades to cut him repeatedly: head, stomach, back. The boy was left unconscious. A neighbor found him and called for help. He survived, but the trauma and injuries marked him permanently.
Three of the four attackers were caught quickly. Gulzar vanished. He changed hideouts constantly, moving through the city's underworld, staying ahead of police for sixteen months. In December 2025, a court officially declared him a proclaimed offender—the legal term for someone so dangerous and evasive that they are publicly named as wanted. The designation meant every police officer in the city was watching.
On April 29, a specialized team led by ACP Umesh Barthwal got a tip. They had been tracking Gulzar through phone records, informant networks, and surveillance footage—the slow, patient work of detective work. The lead pointed to Palam Village. Officers set up a trap. Gulzar walked into it and was taken into custody.
During interrogation, he confessed. He admitted to the assault. He admitted to running, to hiding, to the constant fear of capture. By profession he was a barber, a man who worked with his hands in a shop, and then became a man who used those hands to hurt a child. The law he now faces is unforgiving: Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, which carries a minimum of twenty years in prison. It can extend to life. It can extend to death.
The two cases—the stabbing in Sarai Rohilla and the arrest of Gulzar—sit side by side in the news, two separate incidents that together paint a picture of a city where violence moves through neighborhoods in different forms. One killing is still a mystery. The other is a conviction waiting to happen. Both demand answers.
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Investigation is in progress and all angles are being examined— Delhi Police
He frequently changed hideouts to dodge the law— Police statement on Gulzar's evasion tactics
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Why does the arrest of Gulzar appear in a story about the Sarai Rohilla stabbing? Are they connected?
They're not connected—at least not directly. The police report mentions both cases because they're both active investigations in the same police jurisdiction. It's a way of showing the volume and severity of violent crime happening in North Delhi right now.
So the stabbing victims—do we know who they were, or why they were targeted?
The source material doesn't give us names or any detail about motive. That's typical in the first hours after a killing, when police are still gathering facts. The investigation is described as active, which means those details may come later.
What strikes you most about the Gulzar case?
The patience of it. He was on the run for over a year. He kept moving, kept hiding. And the police kept tracking him—through phone records, informants, surveillance. It's not dramatic, but it's relentless. That's how most fugitives are actually caught.
The assault on the minor—that's extraordinarily violent. How does a person do that?
The police report is clinical about it, but yes, it was premeditated and coordinated. Four men, a child, weapons. The fact that a neighbor found him and he survived is almost luck. The trauma of that kind of violence doesn't end when the physical wounds heal.
What happens to Gulzar now?
He faces trial under the POCSO Act. If convicted, he's looking at a minimum of twenty years in prison, possibly life, possibly death. His three accomplices are already in the system. The legal machinery is slow, but it's moving.