Mumbai:
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is out of the ICU (intensive care unit) and is recovering properly, medical doctors who handled him after he was stabbed by an intruder at his Mumbai residence have mentioned. Mr Khan was stabbed six occasions, together with in his neck, at his condo within the posh Bandra West neighbourhood round 2:30 am on Thursday.
“Saif Ali Khan is doing wonderful. We made him stroll and he can stroll properly. There isn’t any downside and never a lot ache,” Dr Nitin Narayan Dange of the town’s Lilawati Hospital mentioned in a media briefing at the moment.
“Now we have shifted him from the ICU to a particular room. The guests’ motion has been restricted for nearly every week as a result of damage in his backbone. It has a possible probability for spreading an infection,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned there may be “no threat” of paralysis.
Niraj Uttamani, the Chief Working Officer of Lilavati Hospital, mentioned Mr Khan walked into the hospital “like a lion” and was accompanied by his son, Taimur Ali Khan.
He did not even use a stretcher, Mr Uttamani mentioned.
“He (Mr Khan) was soaked in blood when he arrived within the hospital. However he walked in like a lion. He’s a ‘actual hero’,” he mentioned.
“He’s very lucky. If a knife was 2 mm deeper, he would have sustained a severe damage,” he added.
Saif Ali Khan Attacked At His Mumbai Home
Saif Ali Khan was attacked when he was along with his members of the family – his spouse and fellow actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, and their two sons, Jeh and eight-year-old Taimur – at his residence within the 12-floor condo.
Eliyama Philip – a nurse caring for Mr Khan’s four-year-old son Jehangir (also referred to as Jeh) – and one other staffer have been additionally injured within the assault.
In an announcement to the police, Ms Philip, who claimed she has been with the Khan family for 4 years, mentioned she was the primary to identify the intruder – who was between 35-40 years outdated – at Mr Khan’s apartment on the eleventh flooring.
She additionally mentioned the knife-wielding attacker – who’s on the run and was seen close to the Bandra railway station hours after the incident – additionally demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore.
A view of the 12-storey constructing, Satguru Sharan, through which Saif Ali Khan was attacked
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She mentioned she had been woken by noises in the home round 2 am – three hours after Jehangir had been put to mattress. She informed the police the attacker first entered Jeh’s room.
Ms Philip mentioned she noticed the lavatory door ajar and the sunshine on and first assumed that Ms Kapoor Khan was checking in on her youthful son.
“… then I went again to sleep however, once more, I realised one thing was improper. So I awakened once more and noticed a person come out of the lavatory and go into the boy’s room.”
“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, no one will exit” in Hindi,” Ms Philip mentioned.
After I rushed to choose up Jeh, the person – who was armed with a wood stick and an extended Hexa blade – ran in direction of me and tried attacking me, she mentioned.
“I attempted to dam the assault by placing my hand ahead, however the blade hit me close to the wrists of each my arms and on the center finger of my left hand,” she mentioned.
“At the moment, I requested him, “What would you like?”. Then he mentioned, “I would like cash.” I requested, “How a lot would you like?” Then he mentioned in English, “One crore”,” 56-year-old Philip recalled in her police assertion.
Saif Ali Khan Confronts Intruder
Listening to Eliyama Philip’s scream, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan rushed out of their room. When Mr Khan requested the intruder what he needed, he attacked him with a wood object and the hexa blade, Ms Philip mentioned in her police assertion.
“Saif Sir in some way managed to get away from him and all of us ran out of the room and pulled the door of the room,” she mentioned, including that everybody then went to the higher flooring of their house.
The intruder later managed to flee, she mentioned.
Suspect in Saif Ali Khan knife assault incident
In keeping with police sources, there was no signal of pressured entry, nor was anybody captured on CCTV getting into the premises within the two hours earlier than the assault.
Police sources mentioned the intruder – who entered the actor’s house to commit housebreaking – had scaled the wall of an adjoining compound to enter the premises.
He was reportedly aware of the format of the constructing and took the steps on the rear facet of the constructing to succeed in the ground the place the actor lives. He then entered Mr Khan’s house via the fireplace escape.
Mumbai Police have fashioned 20 groups to arrest the accused, who was captured on CCTV cameras within the constructing whereas fleeing.