Two sons of ex-Minister of Energy Gul Sherali – Alisher Gulov, 24, and Dilovar Gulov, 29 – have put a knife fight in Dushanbe’s Sim-Sim Restaurant, a source at the Interior Ministry told Asia-Plus in an interview. 

According to him, Alisher Gulov has bend detained in Sughd province, while Dilovar Gulov has been put on the wanted list.  

The brothers are reportedly suspected of participating in a fight in Sim-Sim Restaurant in the evening of May 16, during which one of them inflicted a stab wound on one of the restaurant visitors. 

The source did not specify who exactly stabbed. 

An investigation is under way.  

It is not the first time that Dilovar Gulov’s gets into crime reports.  

On July 8, 2018, he beat Dilshod Narzullozoda, an officer of the Interior Ministry Organized Crime Control Directorate.  For this crime, Dilovar Gulov was sentenced to one year in prison.  

On March 10 the same year, he and 12 other young men, including the ex-minister’s son-in-law Dilshod Nouralizoda, were detained for disorderly conduct.  By a ruling handed down by a court in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district all of them were sentenced to between 5 and 15 days of administrative arrest.

Besides, Dilovar Gulov was fined 5,000 somonis in summer 2015 for having tinted glasses on his car.