The arrested accused in the Saif Ali Khan attack case, Vijay Das, a waiter at a restaurant, has confessed to having committed the crime, confirmed Mumbai Police, ANI reported.
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What is the latest update in the case? The prime suspect in the Saif Ali Khan attack case was detained in Chhattisgarh by Railway Protection Force on Saturday. Mumbai Police confirmed it has dispatched a team to examine the suspect but questions remain as sources said that the detained individual does not appear to be the accused. After a 60-hour manhunt, the 31-year-old man on board the Jnaneswari Express was detained from Durg in Chhattisgarh.
Who is the attacker? According to Mumbai police, the attacker is related to one of Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan’s staffers, who allowed him entry into the house. A glimpse of the attacker was caught on the CCTV cameras inside the building. The accused was locked in one of the rooms but managed to escape.
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The arrested accused in the Saif Ali Khan attack case, Vijay Das, a waiter at a restaurant, has confessed to having committed the crime, confirmed Mumbai Police, ANI reported.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Saturday said that the suspect in Sail Ali Khan's stabbing case had been caught from Durg by the RPF.
Speaking to ANI, the Chief Minister said, "Actor Saif Ali Khan's suspect who had stabbed him with a knife had been caught from Durg by the RPF. The Mumbai Police is coming and the suspect will be handed over to them." The suspect has been identified as Aakash Kanojia and was travelling from the Jnaneswari Express train when he was nabbed.
The actor was stabbed multiple times at his Mumbai residence in the early hours of Thursday, which left him with severe injuries.
According to the IG of RPF SECR Zone Bilaspur, Munawar Khursheed, information about the suspect, was received from the Assistant Police Inspector at Juhu Police Station, Mumbai Police. It was said that the suspect was travelling aboard the Jnaneswari Express train.
The roof of a film set collapsed in Mumbai's Goregaon area possibly due to vibrations from the sound of a song being shot at the time, a cine employees' federation functionary said on Saturday.
The incident took place on Wednesday night while a song was being shot on the sets of the film "Mere Husband Ki Biwi" starring Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar and directed by Mudassar Aziz, informed Ashok Dubey of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE). Roof of film set collapses during song shoot; no major injuries to cast-crew Mumbai, Jan 18 (PTI) The roof of a film set collapsed in Mumbai's Goregaon area possibly due to vibrations from the sound of a song being shot at the time, a cine employees' federation functionary said on Saturday.
The incident took place on Wednesday night while a song was being shot on the sets of the film "Mere Husband Ki Biwi" starring Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar and directed by Mudassar Aziz, informed Ashok Dubey of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE).
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Crime Branch officials of Mumbai Police collected CCTV footage from a mobile shop in Dadar visited by the alleged suspect to purchase earphones after stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan at his apartment.
The suspect had visited the shop, "Iqra".
"He (the suspect) visited my shop and purchased an earphone for Rs 50. He gave me Rs 100, I returned him Rs 50 and he left the shop. Some police officials came to the shop yesterday (Friday) and took away the CCTV footage. They enquired about the person (suspect). I wasn't aware of what he had done," Hasan, who works at the shop, told PTI Videos.
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Dr Nitin Dange, neurosurgeon at Lilavati Hospital, provided detailed insights into Khan’s treatment at the press briefing. “The sharp object had gone deep, touching the dura and spinal cord but thankfully did not cause permanent damage,” he explained. Emergency surgery successfully repaired the spinal dura and halted a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, a condition that could have led to severe complications, including meningitis.
Spinal surgery consultant Dr Agnivesh Tikoo of Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbaishares the risks of CSF leaks to indianexpress.com, explaining that while many patients recover fully, untreated leaks can lead to persistent headaches, dizziness, and even life-threatening infections like meningitis.
This vital fluid cushions the brain and spinal cord while providing essential nutrients to these neural structures. (Read More..)
A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly opening fire inside his girlfriend's house after she broke up with him in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said on Saturday.
No one was injured in the incident that took place in Ambejogai on Friday morning, an official said. (PTI)
The intruder who attacked Saif Ali Khan on Thursday at his Bandra home also demanded Rs 1 crore from the Bollywood actor’s househelp, police sources said after preliminary investigations.
In her statement to the police, househelp Eliyamma Philip alias Lima, 56, who has worked with the Khans for the past four years as a kid’s nurse, said the intruder first entered Khan’s bedroom, where the actor’s younger son Jeh, 4, was sleeping. He was holding a blade. When she asked what he wanted, he first demanded Rs 1 crore from her. When she tried to resist, he slashed her right wrist with the blade, the police sources said.
More than 40 hours after actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed in a brazen attack inside his Bandra (West) residence, the suspect continued to elude Mumbai police. Police believe he could be a “hardened criminal” since he appears to have changed his clothes to mislead investigators after he left the scene of the crime.
Friday saw a massive manhunt to trace the suspect, with at least two dozen teams from the local police, Crime Branch and crime intelligence unit working to make headway.
In the morning, the Bandra police detained a “suspect” and brought him in for questioning. But five hours later, he was let go as police found that he had no link with the case. Police sources said the man was picked up as he resembled the accused, who was caught on CCTV at Saif’s building, and had a history of petty crime.
The man who allegedly attacked actor Saif Ali Khan inside his residence in Bandra roamed around Dadar in central Mumbai hours after the incident and even purchased a mobile phone cover from a shop, the police team investigating the case have concluded after tracking the intruder’s movements.
Sources in the police department said that after being spotted in the Lucky Junction area in Bandra, the accused likely boarded a local train, travelled to Dadar, purchased a mobile phone cover from a shop named IKRA near platform 1 of Dadar (West) railway station, walked outside the Suvidha showroom, and headed towards Kabutarkhana.
The accused’s movements have been recorded on the CCTV camera at the mobile shop at 9.04 am, sources added. The police may record the statement of the person who sold the phone cover to the accused.
In light of the brutal attack on Khan at his home in Bandra West — a place that straddles both aspiration and achievement in its posh lanes — at least two of the “same old villains” have reared their ugly heads.
The first is the proximity to violence that every Indian — and so many others around the world — are both used to and shocked by. The veneer of safety, security and that ineffable sense that tomorrow will be much the same as today, that life has a broadly predictable trajectory can be shattered in an instant. While the motives, modus operandi and even the culprit(s) in Khan’s stabbing are still far from certain, the violation of his home and person has a broader resonance precisely because it reminds each of us, high and low, of exactly how vulnerable we are. (Read More)
A view of Ikra Mobile Accessories, a shop where the accused in the Saif Ali Khan case bought headphones from yesterday morning, at Kabutarkhana, Dadar, on 18 January 2025.
Express photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee.
Bhajan Singh, the rickshaw-driver who took Saif Ali Khan to Lilavati hospital on the night of the accident, leaves Bandra Police station after an interrogation session with the police, in Mumbai on 18 January 2025.
(Express Photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee)
After attacking Saif Ali Khan, robber tried to hide in central Mumbai and was captured by a CCTV camera while he was buying a mobile cover from a shop outside Dadar (West) railway station
A day after an intruder repeatedly stabbed actor Saif Ali Khan at his Bandra (West) residence, the Mumbai police nabbed a suspect on Friday morning. As the actor recovers in the hospital — he is out of danger — and the investigation continues, The Indian Express looks at five key questions about the case
CCTV footage shows the intruder escaping, but how did he enter the building?
Read our all about the Saif Ali Khan attack here
The suspected break-in at actor Saif Ali Khan’s house lasted for about half-an-hour, from about 2 am on Thursday, when the intruder was first seen in the room of the actor’s younger son by the nanny there. He allegedly attacked the nanny, demanded Rs 1 crore, before stabbing Khan and another member of the staff.
The attacker was later confined to a room, but made his escape. The CCTV footage of the sixth-floor fire-exit staircase captured his exit at 2.33 am.
These details are part of the FIR based on the statement of Eliyamma Philip, 56, the nanny of Khan’s four-year-old son Jehangir.
Saif Ali Khan’s wife and actor Kareena Kapoor Khan told the police that the intruder got very aggressive during the scuffle with her husband, stabbing him multiple times. She said that they all managed to move to the 12th floor. However, jewellery kept the open were left untouched by the attacker, she added.
Kareena said this in her statement to the police recorded on Thursday night.
Saif Ali Khan lives with his family at Satguru Sharan building in a duplex (11th and 12th floor) in Bandra (West), Mumbai. Police sources said the incident left Kareena so shocked and shaken that her sister and actor Karishma Kapoor came and took her to her Khar residence. Police have intensified security at Khan’s Bandra building and Karisma’s residence in Khar.
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who was attacked by an intruder at his Mumbai home, is recovering well and is expected to be discharged in two to three days, doctors said on Saturday.
The 54-year-old actor suffered multiple stab wounds, including on his neck and near the spine, in a brutal attack at his house in Bandra in the early hours of Thursday. He was rushed to Lilavati Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.
Doctors at the hospital said the actor, who has been shifted out of the ICU, is recovering well. He is walking and is on a normal diet.
They said Khan is expected to be discharged in two to three days.
"We are observing his progress, and he is doing excellently well according to our expectations. As per his progress, we have advised him bed rest, and if he is comfortable, then in two to three days we will discharge him," Dr Nitin Dange, a neurosurgeon at Lilavati Hospital, had said on Friday.
He said a team of doctors checked on him and made him walk.
Dange had said that Khan had three injuries, two on the hand and one on the right side of the neck. And the major part was at the back, which was in the spine.
Doctors have removed the sharp object from the back and repaired the spinal injury, he had said.
The police have formed more than 30 teams to track down and nab the attacker, who stabbed the film star in his 12th-floor apartment at the Satguru Sharan building during a robbery attempt. PTI
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