Mumbai:
A nurse caring for Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s youthful son Jehangir (Jeh), Eliyama Philips – who first encountered the intruder that stabbed Mr Khan – has described the accused as a 35 to 40 years previous man with a darkish complexion. In response to Ms Philps, the attacker has a slim construct and is roughly 5 ft 5 inches tall.
On the time of the incident, the attacker was sporting dark-coloured pants and a shirt with a cap on his head, she instructed the police.
“If I see the mentioned man once more, I’ll recognise him,” Ms Philips mentioned.
Saif Ali Khan and his relations – spouse and actor Kareena Kapoor, and their two sons Jeh and Taimur – have been in the home when the attacker entered the Twelfth-floor condominium in the course of the early hours of Thursday. Mr Khan’s 5 home helpers have been additionally inside the home. In response to Ms Philip, she was the primary to identify the intruder on the eleventh flooring.
“I noticed the toilet door ajar and the sunshine on…At first I assumed Kareena Kapoor was checking in on her son. I went again to sleep however quickly realised one thing was unsuitable. I acquired up once more to verify once I noticed a person come out of the toilet and go into Jeh and Taimur’s room,” the nanny narrated.
At this level, she confronted the attacker, following which he demanded Rs 1 crore.
“I shortly acquired up and went to Jeh’s room. The attacker then put his finger close to his mouth and mentioned “Do not make any noise” in Hindi…Once I rushed to choose up Jeh, the intruder who was armed with a wood stick and a protracted Hexa blade, ran in the direction of me and tried attacking me,” she mentioned.
Woke up by her screams, Mr Khan rushed to his son’s room. When he tried to confront the intruder, he was attacked a number of occasions. The actor’s spinal fluid leaked out after shards of the attacker’s knife lodged into his backbone. In response to the docs on the Lilavati Hospital – the place Mr Khan is present process remedy – they repaired the spinal damage and carried out plastic surgical procedures on the actor’s hand and neck.
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What preliminary investigation revealed
In response to the preliminary investigation, the attacker presumably sneaked inside Mr Khan’s home sooner or later earlier within the evening. The suspect was final seen operating away on the sixth flooring of the constructing and was not captured within the foyer’s CCTV cameras whereas coming into or exiting. After the sixth flooring, the suspect was nowhere to be seen, nor was he caught exiting by means of the primary entrance.
Officers suspect that the accused was accustomed to the structure of the constructing and used the shaft and stairs to achieve the eleventh flooring.
After the incident, the attacker instantly ran from the home and was later noticed close to Bandra railway station. He possible took the primary native practice within the morning, officers mentioned.
The police have registered a case underneath sections of theft, trespassing, and “grievous damage brought on whereas committing lurking house-trespass”. 20 groups have been shaped to arrest the accused. The police have additionally recovered a 2.5-inch portion of a knife that was taken out from Mr Khan’s backbone.
Earlier at present, a suspect was taken into custody after an enormous manhunt that concerned gathering technical information and police informers spreading out throughout Mumbai. Visuals confirmed the person being delivered to the Bandra police station. Nevertheless, it’s not but confirmed if the suspect is similar man who attacked Mr Khan.