Delhi man killed intervening in street fight; brother wounded

On a December afternoon in central Delhi, two brothers returning home from work stepped into a stranger's conflict and paid an irreversible price. Sumit, 30, was stabbed to death after he and his brother Hemant moved to break up a street fight in the Bappa Nagar area; Hemant survived with injuries. The act was instinctive, the kind of moral reflex that cities quietly depend on even as they cannot protect those who answer it. Delhi police have opened an investigation, but the assailants remain unidentified, and the family is left to absorb a loss that began with an ordinary walk home.