Khooni Darwaza

Khooni Darwaza, the Bloody Gate, also known as Lal Darwaza and originally as Kabuli Darwaza, stands on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg roughly half a kilometre south of Old Delhi's Delhi Gate. Built by Sher Shah Suri, it is among 13 gates of Delhi that still survive, with the Arun Jaitley cricket ground opposite and Maulana Azad Medical College to its west.

The gate's grim name is tied to several episodes. Jahangir is said to have ordered the execution here of two of Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana's sons, and Aurangzeb to have displayed the head of his brother Dara Shikoh. The name itself is first recorded after 1857, when Major William Hodson shot three Mughal princes at the gate, Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khizr Sultan and Mirza Abu Bakht, the sons and grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar, while taking them from Humayun's Tomb.