Bangladeshi Man Who Stabbed Saif Ali Khan Hid In Thane. How Cops Discovered Him

Mumbai:

Shariful Islam Shehzad, a Bangladeshi nationwide who had illegally entered India and had been dwelling beneath the false identify Bijoy Das, has been arrested for allegedly breaking into actor Saif Ali Khan’s house and attacking him and his employees throughout a housebreaking try.

Police had shaped 30 groups to trace down the accused, who scanned CCTV footage of the constructing in Bandra the place the Saif Ali Khan, his spouse and actor Kareena Kapoor Khan and their sons reside. They observed the suspect leaving the constructing after the assault that left the actor severely injured. Police then scanned a number of hours of footage from throughout town to find the suspect. Throughout this tenous train, they discovered a footage captured by a CCTV digital camera in DN Nagar in Andheri. They noticed the suspect getting off the bike and tracked down the two-wheeler utilizing its quantity.    

Parallelly, following native intelligence inputs, police zeroed in on a rented lodging at Koliwada in Worli, the place the accused lived with three others, sources in police mentioned. A police workforce went to this lodging and questioned the folks dwelling there. They managed to get the suspect’s identify and associated data. Police additionally obtained his cellphone quantity and used it to trace his cellphone location.

The accused, police discovered, had been hiding in a thicket on a abandoned highway in Thane. Police first surrounded him from all sides after which took him into custody.

Police have mentioned they didn’t discover any Indian doc from Shariful, however discovered proof that set up he’s a Bangladeshi nationwide who crossed over illegally.

Throughout questioning, Shariful informed police that he noticed his photos on TV information after the incident and fled to Thane. He switched off his cellphone and conceal close to a labour camp in Thane. Police tracked down his cellphone’s final identified location and reached Thane.  

Shariful has claimed that he didn’t know that he was breaking into Saif Ali Khan’s house, a police officer mentioned. Cops, nevertheless, suspect that he was out of labor and deliberate to rob the actor’s house for a giant haul.

The accused has informed police that he used the rear staircase and air-conditioning ducts to get contained in the constructing. He has additionally mentioned it was the primary time he had entered the constructing. Police have mentioned they might recreate the scene with the accused.

The actor, in the meantime, is recovering effectively after he was rushed to Lilavati Hospital late on Wednesday night time with six stab accidents, considered one of them close to his backbone.

What Occurred That Night time

In her assertion to the police, Eliyama Philip, who works as a nanny for Saif’s sons, has mentioned she was the primary to identify the intruder. The 56-year-old has mentioned was woken up by some noises round 2 am. She noticed the toilet door ajar and the sunshine on and assumed that Kareena Kapoor Khan was checking in on her youthful son Jahangir or Jeh.

“… then I went again to sleep however, once more, I realised one thing was mistaken. So I awoke once more and noticed a person come out of the toilet and go into the boy’s room. I shortly obtained up and went to Jeh’s room. The attacker then put his finger close to his mouth and mentioned ‘Do not make any noise, no one will exit’ in Hindi,” Ms Philip mentioned.

“After I rushed to choose up Jeh, the person, armed with a wood stick and an extended Hexa blade. ran in direction of me and tried attacking me, she mentioned.

“I attempted to dam the assault by placing my hand ahead, however the blade hit me close to the wrists of each my palms and on the center finger of my left hand,” she mentioned.

“At the moment, I requested him, ‘What would you like?’. He mentioned, ‘I would like cash.’ I requested, ‘How a lot would you like?’ He mentioned in English, ‘one crore’,” Ms Philip has mentioned in her assertion.

Listening to Ms Philip scream, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan rushed out of their room. When Mr Khan requested the intruder what he wished, he attacked him with a wood object and the hexa blade, Ms Philip mentioned.

“Saif Sir by some means managed to get away from him and all of us ran out of the room and pulled the door of the room,” she mentioned, including that everybody then went to the higher ground of their house. The intruder later escape, she mentioned.