Mumbai:
A 3rd piece of a knife used to assault and injure Saif Ali Khan at his residence final week was recovered from a lake located close to the actor’s Bandra residence.
The police recovered the piece of knife from a trench close to Bandra lake, which is round a kilometre away from the actor’s Satguru Sharan residence. One piece of knife, measuring 2.5 inches, was recovered from the actor’s physique throughout therapy on the Lilavati Hospital. Police took the accused Mohammad Shariful to the lake on Wednesday and remained on the spot for round one-and-a-half hours.
The police additionally questioned a salon proprietor from Worli Koliwada relating to Shariful visiting him to get a haircut after committing the crime, as per sources. The accused allegedly reduce his hair and altered his look to stay underneath the radar. The 30-year-old Bangladeshi nationwide illegally entered India final 12 months and assumed the alias Vijay Das.
Mr Khan was attacked by Shariful on January 16 at his residence, whereas he was making an attempt to guard his youthful son Jeh throughout an tried theft. As per the kid’s nanny’s assertion to the police, the attacker had asked for an amount of Rs 1 crore. Whereas an early evaluation of CCTV footage couldn’t discover any hint of an intruder, the accused was traced by way of a stairwell CCTV digital camera. He had allegedly scaled the compound wall and snuck previous safety guards who had been asleep.
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Mr Khan was rushed to Lilavati Hospital, the place he underwent two surgical procedures, one to take away a chunk of knife and one other to cease the leakage of spinal fluid. He was discharged on Wednesday, earlier than which he met auto-rickshaw driver Bhajan Singh Rana, who had rushed him to the hospital on the evening of the assault.
Police have introduced that a number of departments from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina will analyse key proof associated to the case, together with cellphones, the accused’s clothes, and CCTV footage. Numerous forensic departments can be concerned within the examination, as investigators face challenges in interrogating Fakir as a consequence of language limitations On Tuesday, police reconstructed the sequence of occasions resulting in the assault at Khan’s house constructing, ‘Satguru Sharan,’ with the accused briefly taken to a close-by location to recreate the crime scene.
Police on Tuesday additionally reconstructed the sequence of occasions of the crime unfolded at Khan’s constructing in Bandra. The accused was taken to a close-by constructing briefly throughout the recreation of the crime, the official added.
The Mumbai Police additionally discovered a number of fingerprints of the accused on the actor’s residence, on the steps of the constructing, the door of the bathroom, and the door deal with of his son Jeh’s room. In keeping with the police, the accused tried to enter three homes earlier than reaching Saif Ali Khan’s residence with the intent to steal.