Mumbai:
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is out of the ICU (intensive care unit) and is recovering nicely, medical doctors who handled him after he was stabbed by an intruder at his Mumbai residence have stated. Mr Khan was stabbed six occasions, together with in his neck, at his residence within the posh Bandra West neighbourhood round 2:30 am on Thursday.
“Saif Ali Khan is doing glorious. We made him stroll and he can stroll nicely. There is not any drawback and never a lot ache,” Dr Nitin Narayan Dange of town’s Lilawati Hospital stated in a media briefing as we speak.
“We have shifted him from the ICU to a particular room. The guests’ motion has been restricted for nearly every week because of the harm in his backbone. It has a possible likelihood for spreading an infection,” he stated.
Niraj Uttamani, the Chief Operating Officer of Lilavati Hospital, stated Mr Khan “walked in like a lion” and was accompanied by his son Taimur.
“He (Mr Khan) was soaked in blood when he arrived within the hospital. But he walked in like a lion. He is a ‘actual hero’,” MR Uttamani stated.
“If a knife was 2 mm deeper, he would have sustained a severe harm,” he added.
Saif Ali Khan Attacked At His Mumbai House
Saif Ali Khan was attacked when he was together with his relations – 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 residence.
Eliyama Philip – a nurse caring for Mr Khan’s four-year-old son Jehangir (also called Jeh) – and one other staffer had been additionally injured within the assault.
In a press release to the police, Ms Philip, who claimed she has been with the Khan family for 4 years, stated she was the primary to identify the intruder – who was between 35-40 years outdated – at Mr Khan’s residence on the eleventh flooring.
She additionally stated 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, during which Saif Ali Khan was attacked
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She stated she had been woken by noises in the home round 2 am – three hours after Jehangir had been put to mattress. She advised the police the attacker first entered Jeh’s room.
Ms Philip stated she noticed the toilet 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 flawed. So I awoke once more and noticed a person come out of the toilet and go into the boy’s room.”
“I rapidly obtained up and went to Jeh’s room. The attacker then put his finger close to his mouth and stated “Don’t make any noise, no one will exit” in Hindi,” Ms Philip stated.
When I rushed to select up Jeh, the person – who was armed with a picket stick and an extended Hexa blade – ran in direction of me and tried attacking me, she stated.
“I attempted to dam the assault by placing my hand ahead, however the blade hit me close to the wrists of each my fingers and on the center finger of my left hand,” she stated.
“At that point, I requested him, “What would you like?”. Then he stated, “I need cash.” I requested, “How a lot would you like?” Then he stated in English, “One crore”,” 56-year-old Philip recalled in her police assertion.
Saif Ali Khan Confronts Intruder
Hearing 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 picket object and the hexa blade, Ms Philip stated in her police assertion.
“Saif Sir by some means managed to get away from him and all of us ran out of the room and pulled the door of the room,” she stated, including that everybody then went to the higher flooring of their dwelling.
The intruder later managed to flee, she stated.
Suspect in Saif Ali Khan knife assault incident
According to police sources, there was no signal of compelled entry, nor was anybody captured on CCTV getting into the premises within the two hours earlier than the assault.
Police sources stated the intruder – who entered the actor’s dwelling 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 dwelling by the fireplace escape.
Mumbai Police have shaped 20 groups to arrest the accused, who was captured on CCTV cameras within the constructing whereas fleeing.