Mumbai:
NDTV has accessed the primary picture and pictures of the person who’s suspected to have entered the home of Saif Ali Khan in Bandra and stabbed him six occasions, inflicting accidents to the actor’s hand, neck and backbone.
The person was captured on CCTV at 2.33 am on Thursday within the stairwell of the actor’s constructing. Within the picture, the person might be seen wearing a t-shirt and denims carrying a backpack and what seems to be an orange scarf on his shoulder. The video reveals him strolling down the steps and in addition trying straight on the digicam at one level.
Saif Ali Khan, his spouse and actor Kareena Kapoor Khan and their sons reside in an house – unfold over 4 flooring – in a 12-storey constructing in Bandra West. Mumbai Police sources had earlier advised NDTV that the attacker – believed to have deliberate to rob the Khans’ house – entered the compound subsequent to the constructing wherein the actors keep after which scaled a wall.
After having access to the Khans’ constructing, he used the steps within the rear to climb as much as the flooring housing their house and used a fireplace escape to enter it.
One of many home helps in Mr Khan’s house, Eliyama Phillipes alias Lima, was reportedly the primary to identify the person. She screamed, alerting the actor, who confronted the intruder and tried to battle him off. The person stabbed Mr Khan six occasions, inflicting accidents to his left hand and neck and leaving a knife lodged in his backbone.
When the intruder was requested what he needed, he allegedly demanded Rs 1 crore. Two home helps have been additionally injured within the assault.
‘Out Of Hazard’
Saif Ali Khan was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital by his son, Ibrahim, and medical doctors mentioned he’s steady and out of hazard.
“Mr Saif Ali Khan was admitted to the hospital round 2 am with alleged historical past of assault by some unknown individual. He sustained extreme accidents to the thoracic spinal wire on account of a lodged knife within the backbone. Emergency surgical procedure was carried out to take away the knife and restore leaking spinal fluid. Two different deep wounds on his left hand and one different on his neck have been repaired by the cosmetic surgery group,” Nitin Dange of Lilavati Hospital mentioned.
“I’m blissful to verify that Mr. Saif Ali Khan is totally steady now. He’s recovering effectively and out of hazard,” he added.
The police have registered a case in reference to the assault below sections of theft, trespassing, and “grievous damage prompted whereas committing lurking house-trespass”.
At the least eight groups have been fashioned to analyze the assault and hint the suspect. The Mumbai Police Crime Department can be probing the case.
‘Not Unsafe’
With the Maharashtra authorities below hearth from opposition leaders and a few within the movie fraternity after the assault, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis – who additionally holds the Dwelling portfolio – mentioned what occurred was unlucky, however it might not be appropriate to say that Mumbai is unsafe.
“Amongst all of the megacities within the nation, Mumbai is the most secure. It’s true that some incidents happen typically and they need to be handled with seriousness however to say, primarily based on one incident, that Mumbai is unsafe wouldn’t be appropriate. This tarnishes Mumbai’s picture. However the authorities is working to make Mumbai even safer,” he asserted.
Hitting out on the state authorities after the assault, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi requested, “If celebrities are usually not protected, who in Mumbai is?”
She additionally introduced up the homicide of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique in October final 12 months and the firing exterior actor Salman Khan’s house in April. Each of those incidents had additionally taken place in Bandra, which is one in all Mumbai’s poshest areas and is house to lots of the metropolis’s wealthy and well-known, together with different actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.
A number of different leaders from the opposition in Maharashtra, together with Aaditya Thackeray and the Congress’ Varsha Gaikwad, additionally criticised the legislation and order scenario within the state and in Mumbai, and so did Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.