MUMBAI: Bollywood famous person Saif Ali Khan sustained accidents on his hand and again when he jumped to his youngest son Jehangir’s defence on the night time of the foiled housebreaking try at his residence in Bandra West, he advised law enforcement officials investigating the incident on Friday.
Saif Ali Khan with sons Taimur and Jehangir
In the meantime, Shariful Islam Shehzad, the 30-year-old Bangladeshi nationwide who allegedly carried out the assault and was arrested from Thane greater than 48 hours later, was on Friday additional remanded in police custody until January 29. This was after police knowledgeable a Bandra court docket that Shenzad had procured Indian identification paperwork like Aadhaar and PAN below the identify Bijoy Das from an agent who helped him cross the Indo-Bangladesh border and journey to Mumbai however was not revealing the agent’s identify.
Within the assertion recorded by the police on Friday, 54-year-old Saif Ali Khan stated he and his spouse, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, have been about to go to mattress after she returned house at 1.33am on January 16 once they heard Jehangir’s nanny, Junu, who slept in the identical room as him, screaming.
“The actor and his wife rushed to Jehangir’s bedroom when they heard the staff screaming,” stated a police officer.
By this time, Jehangir’s nurse, Elliyamma Phillips, had confronted the intruder, who police say entered the actors’ eleventh and twelfth flooring duplex residence by means of the balcony after which the toilet window round 10 minutes after Kareena returned house. He had advised Philips that he needed ₹1 crore and attacked her in a bid to maintain her quiet, solely to ship Junu bolting out of the bed room, screaming for assist.
“As the actors hastily reached the bedroom, they saw Philips injured while Jehangir crying with fear. Saif pounced on the intruder to protect his son – he grabbed the intruder from the front but was stabbed, first on his and then his back, where a broken piece of the knife got lodged. The back injury sent him into a state of shock,” stated the police officer quoted earlier.
The 54-year-old actor underwent surgical procedure at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra to take away a damaged knife piece lodged close to his backbone and was discharged on Tuesday.
In his assertion, Saif stated he, Kareena, Jehangir and his nanny and nurse rushed out of the bed room after he was stabbed. They closed the bed room door behind them assuming they’d locked the intruder in, however different workers male members didn’t discover him there later once they regarded later, the actor advised the police.
“It was only when Saif was in the hospital that he learnt about the intruder demanding ₹1 crore from Phillips. He had no idea about this earlier and was only trying to defend his son when he got stabbed violently,” the officer stated.