Mumbai Police doubles down, claims ‘ample and robust proof’

The Mumbai police, who’re probing the incident of assault on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, stated on Tuesday, 28 January, that they’ve “ample and robust proof” in opposition to the Bangladeshi nationwide arrested within the case.

Khan was attacked within the early hours of 16 January at his Bandra residence in Mumbai, the place he was stabbed six occasions. On 19 January, the police arrested Bangladeshi nationwide Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir, alias Vijay Das, from neighbouring Thane on this connection.

In a press convention, further commissioner of police (West Area) Paramjit Dahiya shared the event within the probe and stated it was an “glorious, proof-based detection” made by the DCP Zone 9 staff, together with the crime department.

“The Mumbai police have ample and robust proof in opposition to the accused particular person, together with documentary, bodily and technical,” he stated.

“As for ascertaining the id of the accused as a part of amassing proof earlier than submitting the chargesheet, the police have an possibility of (utilizing the) face recognition (know-how), and we are going to discover it,” he stated.

When an accused in any case will get arrested, police gather a number of items of proof in opposition to him to show his position within the crime, which incorporates face recognition, fingerprints, oral statements, and plenty of others, and the investigating officer collects all of the proof earlier than the chargesheet.