Mumbai:
A girl got here operating shouting “roko, roko, roko (cease, cease, cease)”, stated the auto driver, Bhajan Singh Rana, who took Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan to hospital early on Thursday.
The actor, 54, was repeatedly stabbed in an obvious housebreaking at his residence in Mumbai, his public relations staff stated.
“I used to be going by way of Linkin Road. The constructing the place he (Saif Ali Khan) lives is called Satguru Niwas. A girl got here operating shouting rickshaw, rickshaw, rickshaw, roko, roko, roko (cease, cease, cease). She then requested to cease the auto close to the constructing gate,” Mr Rana instructed NDTV.
The auto driver didn’t know that the injured man he was taking to the hospital was Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan.
“I didn’t know he was Saif Ali Khan. It was an emergency. Even I used to be nervous about who is that this passenger that’s stepping into my auto. I used to be anxious that I’d get into hassle. And that’s the reason I used to be nervous,” stated Mr Rana.
“He (Saif) was carrying a white shirt stained with blood. A toddler sat with him, a younger man additionally sat with him,” stated the auto driver, narrating the sequence of occasions.
The driver stated that upon asking whether or not he ought to drive to Holy Family or Lilavati Hospital, the actor stated, “Take me to Lilavati”.
Upon reaching the hospital, a guard was referred to as and the hospital employees assembled, stated the auto driver, including that it was then the passenger launched himself:” I’m Saif Ali Khan”.
The auto driver realised then that the passenger in his auto was Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan.
The actor was “out of hazard” following an emergency surgical procedure, stated docs on the Lilavati Hospital the place he was rushed following the incident that passed off at his home.
Asked if Kareena Kapoor, Saif’s spouse, was current on the time the actor was rushed to the hospital, the auto driver stated, “I didn’t discover.”
Mr Khan is the son of former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, and Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore.
His appearing credit embrace the 2001 hit Dil Chahta Hai, and the favored Netflix crime collection Sacred Games.