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After being caught from Thane on Saturday night, the man suspected of having stabbed actor Saif Ali Khan at his residence allegedly admitted to the crime, saying, “Ha maine hi kiya (Yes, I did it).” A police officer among the approximately 100 police personnel searching for the accused in Thane confirmed this to The Indian Express.
The Mumbai police later on Sunday morning said primary evidence revealed that the attacker is a Bangladeshi national who does not have any valid Indian identity proof. They identified him as Mohammad Shariful Islam Shahzad, 30, who had changed his name to Vijay Das after entering India to hide his Bangladeshi origins.
Islam allegedly stabbed Saif Ali Khan on Thursday early morning at his Bandra residence during a failed robbery attempt. After the attack, he allegedly changed his locations multiple times, avoided getting captured by CCTV cameras, and hid in the Dadar and Worli areas. He was eventually caught from Thane’s Ghodbunder area while he was hiding in dense mangroves nearly 70 after the attack.
The police said Mohammad Shariful was scared as he sensed that someone was very close to him. As a result, he hid himself in the mangroves but was eventually caught, they said. He was currently being interrogated by the police in the Khar police station and would be produced in the Bandra metropolitan court on Sunday afternoon.
The police also gathered information that the accused spent time in the Taloja jail for a theft case. However, they were verifying this information.
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