Mumbai:
A person was arrested from Maharashtra’s Thane early this morning for allegedly attacking Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan in his home. The accused, recognized as Mohammed Aliyan, was caught close to the Hiranandani Estate in Kasarvadavali, about 35 kilometres from Mr Saif’s residence.
He stated his title was Vijay Das due to his worry of getting caught. He used to work as a housekeeping employees at a bar in Thane.
Saif Ali Khan suffered a number of stab wounds, together with on his neck and close to the backbone, after an intruder entered his upscale Bandra dwelling and attacked him within the early hours of Thursday.
The 54-year-old actor – who was stabbed six occasions – was rushed to town’s Lilavati Hospital in an autorickshaw the place he underwent emergency surgical procedure. A 2.5-inch piece of the blade was faraway from his backbone after a five-hour-long surgical procedure.
He is recovering nicely, docs treating him stated Friday.
Earlier Saturday, a suspect – recognized as 31-year-old Aakash Kailash Kannojia from Mumbai – was detained at Chhattisgarh’s Durg railway station.
Officials stated he was “caught from the Mumbai-Howrah Jnaneswari Express on the lead of the Mumbai Police.”
“Around 2 pm, when the practice reached Durg, the suspect – who was sitting within the basic compartment – deboarded and was instantly taken into custody. He is being interrogated,” the Railway Protection Force (RPF) officers stated.
“The Mumbai Police had despatched the suspect’s photograph, practice quantity and site to the RPF, after which he was caught,” they stated. The man was travelling with out a ticket.
Sources claimed the detained passenger seemed just like the suspect within the actor-stabbing case.
Saif Ali Khan Attacked At His Mumbai Residence
Saif Ali Khan was attacked when he was along with his relations – his spouse and fellow actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, and their two sons, four-year-old Jeh and eight-year-old Taimur – at his residence within the 12-floor condo – Satguru Sharan – in Bandra.
Eliyama Philip – a nurse caring for Jeh – and one other staffer have been additionally injured within the assault. In a press release to the police, Ms Philip stated she was the primary to identify the intruder – who was between 35-40 years previous – at Mr Khan’s condo on the eleventh ground.
She additionally stated the knife-wielding attacker additionally demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore.
A view of the 12-storey constructing, Satguru Sharan, by which Saif Ali Khan was attacked
Photo Credit: ANI
The 56-year-old stated she had been woken by noises in the home round 2 am – three hours after Jehangir had been put to mattress. She instructed the police the attacker first entered Jeh’s room.
She claimed 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 unsuitable. So I awoke once more and noticed a person come out of the lavatory and go into the boy’s room.
“I shortly bought 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 choose 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 would like cash.” I requested, “How a lot would you like?” Then he stated in English, “One crore”,” Ms 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 wished, he attacked him with a picket object and the hexa blade, Ms Philip stated.
“Saif Sir someway 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 ground 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 pressured entry, nor was anybody captured on CCTV coming 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 accustomed to the format of the constructing and took the steps on the rear aspect of the constructing to succeed in the ground the place the actor lives. He then entered Mr Khan’s dwelling by way of the hearth escape.
Mumbai Police had shaped about 30 groups to arrest the accused, who was additionally captured on CCTV cameras within the constructing.