Mumbai:
The person who stabbed Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan – at his dwelling in Mumbai’s posh Bandra West neighbourhood early Thursday morning – demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore, police sources instructed NDTV this night, citing an announcement by a member of Mr Khan’s home workers.
Three individuals – Saif Ali Khan, 54, and two staffers – were injured in the knife attack that adopted the ransom demand. Mr Khan was stabbed six instances, leading to accidents to his spinal wire. He was rushed to town’s Lilavati Hospital – by his son Ibrahim in an auto-rickshaw after his car was delayed.
The actor’s medical situation is now steady, medical doctors have mentioned.
Mr Khan and his household – spouse and fellow actor Kareena Kapoor Khan and their sons – reside in an condo – unfold over 4 flooring – in a twelve-storey constructing in Bandra West.
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Earlier right now police sources instructed NDTV the attacker – who was trying to burgle the condo – entered the compound by way of an adjoining. He was noticed in CCTV footage from a stairwell within the actor’s dwelling; he might be seen in a t-shirt and denims, with an orange scarf on his shoulder.
A maid in Mr Khan’s make use of, Eliyama Phillipes, was the primary to identify the intruder.
When she confronted him, he reportedly demanded a cost of Rs 1 crore. In line with her assertion, she then screamed, which alerted Mr Khan who then tried to struggle the intruder.
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He was stabbed six instances in that struggle, and a two-and-a-half inch fragment of the knife broke off and lodged in his backbone. Docs mentioned he sustained “extreme accidents to the thoracic spinal wire… two different deep wounds on his left hand and one on his neck have been repaired by cosmetic surgery…”
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The police have registered a case below sections of theft, trespassing, and “grievous harm prompted whereas committing lurking house-trespass”. The suspect has not but been arrested.
The assault has thrown up robust questions in regards to the response of the safety guards on responsibility on the high-profile constructing, and the way the intruder managed to enter the actor’s dwelling undetected.
It has additionally triggered a predictable political squabble, with the BJP-led state authorities below fireplace from the opposition and members of the movie fraternity. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis – who can be the Residence Minister – referred to as the assault ‘unlucky’, however denied discuss of Mumbai being unsafe.
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This adopted jabs from Shiv Sena (ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s faction) chief Priyanka Chaturvedi, who declared, “If celebrities should not protected, who in Mumbai is?”
In the meantime, Aam Aadmi Get together chief Arvind Kejriwal and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee additionally joined the record of opposition figures focusing on the BJP on this challenge.
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