According to the police, the man who attacked Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan in his Mumbai residence was arrested from Maharashtra’s Thane early this morning. The accused is identified as 30-year-old Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad and is suspected as a Bangladeshi. He was caught 35 kilometers from Mr. Saif’s residence, near the Hiranandani Estate in Kasarvadavali.
The Man Who Attacked Saif Ali Khan Is Suspected As A Bangladeshi
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Saif Ali Khan was attacked in the early hours of Thursday as the intruder broke into his upscale Bandra home. He suffered multiple stab wounds, including on his neck and near the spine.
“Investigation has revealed that he went to Saif’s house with the intention of theft. It seems the accused is a Bangladeshi,” senior police official Dixit Gedam said at a press conference after his arrest.
“He does not have any Indian documents. Some things have been recovered from him which show that he is a Bangladeshi,” he added.
Mr. Gedam revealed that the accused had lived in Mumbai for the past four months and had changed his name to Bijoy Das. He was working at a housekeeping company.
The actor was rushed to the city’s Lilavati Hospital in an autorickshaw after being stabbed six times and went into emergency surgery. A 2.5-inch piece of the blade was removed from his spine after a five-hour-long surgery, currently, he is recovering well.
On Saturday, a suspect was identified as 31-year-old Aakash Kailash Kannojia from Mumbai. He was detained at Chhattisgarh’s Durg railway station. Officials said he was “caught from the Mumbai-Howrah Jnaneswari Express on the lead of the Mumbai Police.”
“Around 2 pm, when the train reached Durg, the suspect – who was sitting in the general compartment – deboarded and was immediately taken into custody. He is being interrogated,” the Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials said.
“The Mumbai Police had sent the suspect’s photo, train number, and location to the RPF, after which he was caught,” they said. The man was traveling without a ticket.
Sources claimed the detained passenger looked like the suspect in the actor-stabbing case.
Saif Ali Khan Stabbed At His Home

Saif Ali Khan was attacked when he was with his family members; his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan and two kids Taimur who is eight years and Jah is four years old, at his 12-floor apartment at Satguru Sharan in Bandra.
Eliyama Philip – a nurse caring for Jeh – and another staffer were also injured in the attack. In a statement to the police, Ms Philip said- she was the first to spot the intruder – who was between 35-40 years old – at Mr Khan’s apartment on the 11th floor. She said the knife-wielding attacker also demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore.

The 56-year-old said she had been woken by noises in the house around 2 am – three hours after Jehangir had been put to bed. She told the police the attacker first entered Jeh’s room.
She claimed she saw the bathroom door ajar and the light on and first assumed that Ms Kapoor Khan was checking in on her younger son.”… then I went back to sleep but, again, I realized something was wrong. So I woke up again and saw a man come out of the bathroom and go into the boy’s room. I quickly got up and went to Jeh’s room. The attacker then put his finger near his mouth and said “Don’t make any noise, nobody will go out” in Hindi,” Ms Philip said.
When I rushed to pick up Jeh, the man – who was armed with a wooden stick and a long Hexa blade – ran towards me and tried attacking me, she said.
“I tried to block the attack by putting my hand forward, but the blade hit me near the wrists of both my hands and on the middle finger of my left hand,” she said.
“At that time, I asked him, “What do you want?”. Then he said, “I want money.” I asked, “How much do you want?” Then he said in English, “One crore”,” Ms. Philip recalled in her police statement.
On hearing Philip scream, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan rushed out of their room. After Mr Khan asked the intruder what he wanted, he attacked him with a wooden object and the hexa blade, Ms Philip said.

“Saif Sir somehow managed to get away from him and we all ran out of the room and pulled the door of the room,” she said, adding that everyone then went to the upper floor of their home. The intruder later managed to escape, she said.
As per the police sources, there was no evidence of any break, furthermore, no one was captured on CCTV entering the premises in the two hours before the assault. Police sources said that the intruder had climbed the fence of another house to gain access to the compound.
He was said to have known the designs of the building and used the stairs at the back of the building to get to the floor that the actor inhabits. He then f conveyed himself into the house through a fire exit door of the house owned by Mr Khan. Police of Mumbai had constituted around 30 teams to arrest the accused person and there was CCTV footage available of the building also.
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