Mumbai:
A 30-year-old Bangladeshi nationwide, who was arrested on Sunday on costs of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan after breaking into his home, has reportedly confessed to the crime, saying “haan, maine hello kiya hai (sure, I did it)”.
According to police sources, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad was arrested from close to Hiranandani Estate in Kasarvadavali in Thane, about 35 kilometres from Mr Khan’s home in Mumbai’s Bandra space. The breakthrough got here after over 70 hours of an intense manhunt that was launched following the assault throughout a failed housebreaking bid within the early hours of Thursday.
After being caught, when a senior officer requested Shehzad if he was the one who had attacked Mr Khan, the accused stated “haan, maine hello kiya hai“, a supply stated.
The police traced Shehzad to a labour camp in a forested space primarily based on the knowledge offered by a labour contractor.
As quickly as Shehzad bought a whiff {that a} workforce of 100 policemen had reached and had been searching for him in Thane, the accused hid himself within the bushes in a forested space, a supply stated. “He was arrested after a search operation that lasted for seven hours within the metropolis,” the supply added.
Earlier within the day, senior police officer Dixit Gedam informed reporters that Shehzad is a Bangladeshi nationwide. “He doesn’t have any Indian paperwork. Some issues present in his possession present that he’s a Bangladeshi nationwide,” Mr Gedam stated.
Police additionally stated the accused has been dwelling in Mumbai for the previous 4 months and had modified his title to Bijoy Das.
Defence lawyer Sandeep D Sherkhane, nonetheless, stated the case has been hyped due to the presence of Mr Khan.
Mr Sherkhane additionally contended that his shopper has been residing within the nation for a number of years and has important paperwork (for staying within the nation), and that his household can also be dwelling in India.
A courtroom remanded the accused in five-day police custody.
Fifty-four-year-old Khan suffered grievous accidents, after he was stabbed six occasions reportedly by Shehzad throughout a failed housebreaking try on the actor’s twelfth ground residence in “Satguru Sharan” constructing in upscale Bandra. The medical doctors who carried out an emergency surgical procedure had eliminated a 2.5-inch piece of a damaged knife from his backbone afterwards.
If the knife had pierced 2 mm deeper, it may have precipitated a extreme damage, the medical doctors had famous.
In her assertion to the police, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan recalled the assault on her husband and stated she noticed the intruder stab him repeatedly. “The attacker was aggressive. I noticed him assault Saif repeatedly…Our precedence was to take Saif to the hospital,” she stated.
A nurse caring for the couple’s youthful son Jehangir (Jeh), Eliyama Philips – who first encountered the intruder – stated the accused had demanded Rs 1 crore.
Multiple groups of the police and the crime department labored on a number of inputs and analysed footage from a number of CCTV cameras to trace down Khan’s attacker.
On Friday, a carpenter was held as he resembled the screengrab of the suspect from the CCTV footage on the actor’s constructing, however he was launched later as he was discovered to haven’t any hyperlink to the crime. A day later, a suspect was detained in Chhattisgarh’s Durg railway station however was launched on Sunday.