Five days after attack at house, Saif Ali Khan walks out of hospital

Khan had sustained six injuries, including two deep stab wounds, in the break-in at his duplex residence on January 16, between 2 am and 2.30 am. He was taken to hospital in an auto-rickshaw, and underwent emergency surgery, including the removal of a knife blade lodged in his spine. Doctors had earlier said that Khan had also suffered injuries on his hand and neck.

 

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Earlier in the day, police took the Bangladeshi national arrested in the case, Mohammed Shariful Islam alias Vijay Das, 30, to the actor’s residence in Bandra to re-create the crime scene and ascertain the sequence of events.

Kareena Kapoor was clicked leaving Lilavati hospital. (Express photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee)

Police sources said the accused was taken early morning, when it was still dark for a more accurate re-creation. The police asked the accused to show where and how he gained entry into the building, and the actor’s residence on the 11th and 12th floor.

While a part of the knife that was used in the attack was seized from the crime scene, police are likely to take the accused to the spot where he allegedly threw the remaining part.

The intruder was first spotted in the room of the actor’s younger son, Jehangir, by the nanny there. He allegedly attacked the nanny, demanded Rs 1 crore, before stabbing Khan and another member of the staff.

Later, after making his escape, the accused slept in a garden near a college in Bandra and then took a train from the Bandra railway station to Dadar, police said. From Dadar, he went to Worli and then to Thane, according to the police.

He was eventually caught hiding in the mangroves near a labour camp in Thane at around 2 am on Sunday – after a manhunt that involved tracking CCTV footage and an online payment he made at a food stall.