Saif Ali Khan attack: Mumbai police take accused to actor’s house to recreate crime scene—in darkness for accuracy

In the early morning of Thursday, January 16, Islam allegedly broke into Saif Ali Khan’s 11th-floor apartment in Bandra, injured the family’s nanny, and then attacked the actor with a knife, stabbing him six times before escaping. Khan underwent surgery and is currently stable and out of danger.

On visiting the crime scene along with the accused, the police asked Islam to narrate from where he took entry into the compound of the residential society Satguru Sharan on St Teresa Road, how he used a ladder to directly enter the 1st floor, and later took the fire exit staircase and then the duct shaft to reach the balcony area of Khan’s 11th-floor house.

Police sources said Islam broke the metal net on the balcony’s door that opens to the house. The accused allegedly hid in Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor couple’s youngest son Jehangir’s bathroom. When Jehangir’s nanny, Eliyama Phillip, spotted a shadow, Islam allegedly tried to rob them at knife point. After a scuffle with two nannies of the kid, a loud commotion alerted Saif Ali Khan on the 12th floor, who then came to the 11th floor using the internal stairs of their duplex, said the police.

The actor then tried to stop Islam, who allegedly attacked him six times with a knife he was carrying. Injured Saif Ali Khan and others managed to push Islam into Jehangir’s room and escaped to their safety. Islam then escaped through the same route he had used to enter the house, according to the police.

After escaping the Bandra building, Islam slept in a garden near National College in Bandra and then took a train from the Bandra railway station to Dadar, said the police. From Dadar, he went to Worli, and after learning that the police were after him, he went to Thane, according to the police. On Sunday early morning, he was nabbed from the labour camp area of Thane while he was hiding in mangroves. He was later produced before a court that remanded him to five days of police custody.