Mumbai:
The seriousness of the courtroom in Bandra, the place a Bangladeshi man arrested for allegedly attacking actor Saif Ali Khan was offered on Sunday, momentarily dissipated when two attorneys jostled to characterize him.
The uncommon drama in regards to the high-profile case prompted the Justice of the Peace earlier than whom the 30-year-old man had been introduced for remand proceedings to behave as referee and recommend to the attorneys to look as a group.
After breaking a lot sweat, the Mumbai police on Sunday morning arrested Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad from Thane metropolis for allegedly sneaking into the Bollywood star’s Bandra house within the early hours of January 16 with the intention of theft and repeatedly stabbing him.
Amid heavy police presence, Shehzad was produced earlier than a metropolitan Justice of the Peace courtroom in Bandra within the afternoon.
The courtroom requested him if he had any complaints towards the police to which Shehzad replied within the adverse. He was then taken to a field meant for accused individuals within the again finish of the courtroom.
A lawyer then got here ahead claiming to be showing for the accused.
However, the scene turned dramatic simply earlier than he might take the signature of the accused on the ‘vakalatamana’ (authorized doc authorising a lawyer to look in a case).
Another lawyer jostled his approach to the accused field and took Shehzad’s signature on his vakalatamana, triggering moments of confusion about who would seem for the alleged attacker.
To defuse the state of affairs, the Justice of the Peace instructed to each the competing attorneys to characterize Shehzad. “You each can seem,” the Justice of the Peace stated, bringing again the give attention to the remand proceedings. The duo agreed.
The courtroom subsequently remanded Shehzad in police custody for 5 days.
Before arresting the accused, police had rounded up a number of people who resembled him primarily based on the footage of a CCTV digicam from the actor’s constructing.
Saif Ali Khan, certainly one of Bollywood’s main actors, was repeatedly stabbed with a knife by an intruder inside his Twelfth-floor residence in ‘Satguru Sharan’ constructing in upscale Bandra within the early hours of January 16.
The 54-year-old actor underwent an emergency surgical procedure on the Lilavati Hospital the place he was rushed following the incident that passed off round 2.30 am. He is recovering and could also be discharged quickly, docs have stated.
Earlier within the day, police stated Shehzad hails from Jhalokathi, additionally known as Jhalakathi, district in southern Bangladesh’s Barisal division, including that he was in Mumbai for the previous 5 months, throughout which he did petty jobs, together with at a housekeeping company.
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