Mumbai:
Actor Saif Ali Khan, who suffered stab accidents after an intruder entered his Mumbai dwelling on January 16, recorded his assertion with the Bandra police on Thursday. Recalling the incident, Mr Khan mentioned that he and his actor spouse Kareena Kapoor Khan have been of their bed room on the eleventh flooring of the Satguru Sharan constructing once they heard their youthful son Jehangir’s (Jeh) nanny scream.
Woke up by her screams, Mr Khan and Ms Kapoor rushed to their son’s room the place they noticed the alleged attacker. Whereas the nanny – Eliyama Philips – was scared and screaming, Jeh was crying, Mr Khan informed the police.
When Mr Khan tried to cease the accused, he stabbed the actor a number of occasions on his again, neck, and fingers, police sources mentioned. Regardless of being injured, the actor pushed the intruder contained in the room as Ms Philips ran away with Jeh and locked him in, they added.
Saif Ali Khan and his members of the family – 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 for an obvious housebreaking. In accordance with Ms Philips, the intruder had demanded Rs 1 crore.
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Mr Khan, who suffered six stab accidents – one among which was on his backbone – was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital round 2 am on the night time of the incident. He underwent a surgical procedure to repair leaking spinal fluid and plastic surgical procedures on his arm and neck. He was discharged on January 21.
Saif Ali Khan’s attacker arrested
The alleged attacker Shariful Islam, who had illegally entered India from Bangladesh final yr, was arrested final week from Thane close to Mumbai after a three-day manhunt involving at the very least 20 groups from the Mumbai Police. The cops zeroed in on his location after he paid for breakfast – a paratha – by way of a Google Pay transaction, sources informed NDTV.
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 – which have been despatched for analysis.
The 30-year-old accused reportedly confessed to the crime two days after the arrest saying, “haan, maine hello kiya hai (sure, I did it)”.
Nonetheless, Shariful’s father defended his son by saying he was “wrongfully implicated” within the incident.
“From what’s proven within the CCTV… my son by no means retains his hair lengthy. I imagine my son is being framed. He left Bangladesh and got here to India for one purpose – the political unrest in Bangladesh… He was working the place he acquired a wage, and his employer even rewarded him,” Md Ruhul Amin Fakir mentioned.