Robust Proof…: Cops Give BIG Replace In Saif Stabbing Case Amid Claims Of Fingerprint Mismatch
Saif Ali Khan Stabbing Case: Contemporary updates have emerged within the Saif Ali Khan stabbing case the place the Mumbai Police have claimed that they’ve sturdy proof in opposition to the Bangladeshi nationwide arrested within the case. Saif Ali Khan was attacked within the early hours of January 16 at his Bandra residence in Mumbai, the place he was stabbed six instances. On January 19, the police arrested Bangladeshi nationwide Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir alias Vijay Das from neighbouring Thane on this connection.
The Mumbai Police shared contemporary particulars after reviews claiming that the units of fingerprints collected from the actor’s home don’t match the accused’s fingerprints surfaced. Clearing the air, the police categorically denied the claims, saying that an official report on fingerprints continues to be awaited.
Giving an replace on the investigation within the case, Extra Commissioner of Police (West Area) Paramjit Dahiya stated throughout a press convention that it was an “glorious, proof-based detection” made by DCP Zone 9 crew together with the crime department. “The Mumbai police have ample and powerful proof in opposition to the accused individual, together with documentary, bodily and technical,” he stated.
“As for ascertaining the identification of the accused as a part of proof assortment earlier than the submitting of the chargesheet, the police have an possibility of face recognition and we are going to discover it,” he stated. “Through the investigation of the case, the police didn’t discover some other affiliate with him (the accused),” Dahiya stated. The police are questioning the individuals he was in touch with, he additional said.
“We now have despatched the samples of fingerprints to the Crime Investigation Division (CID). As on as we speak, we’ve not acquired any official report about his fingerprints,” he stated. “The arrested accused is similar (individual concerned within the assault) and the police have oral, bodily and technical proof in opposition to him,” he stated including that they’ll produce all of the proof earlier than the court docket.
Final week, Mohammad Ruhul, the daddy of Shariful Islam, claimed that his son was being framed within the case and that he would quickly method Bangladesh’s international ministry and the Indian Excessive Fee for his launch.
Ruhul alleged that the person seen within the CCTV digicam footage was not Shariful. He additionally stated his son didn’t have correct documentation for his keep in India and he lived in fixed concern of being arrested.
A Mumbai court docket final week prolonged until January 29 the police custody of Shariful. The police knowledgeable the court docket that they needed to conduct facial recognition of the person to determine if he was the individual seen within the CCTV digicam footage from the actor’s constructing. The police have recorded the statements of Khan, his spouse Kareena Kapoor Khan and the home workers in reference to the assault.
In the meantime, a West Bengal-based lady, whose cell phone SIM was utilized by Shariful Islam, has advised police she had misplaced her cellphone, an official stated on Monday. The official maintained the police have been “100%” certain that it was Shariful who attacked the 54-year-old Bollywood star.
A Mumbai police crew visited the Nadia and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal as a part of their investigation into the January 16 knife assault on Khan in his twelfth flooring residence in Bandra throughout a theft try.
The police later arrested Shariful, a Bangladeshi man who illegally entered India final 12 months, from adjoining Thane metropolis for the assault, and he’s of their custody until January 29. Through the probe, the police got here to find out about a girl whose SIM card was utilized by the arrested accused for making calls and recorded her assertion, the official stated. Within the assertion, the girl claimed she had misplaced her cell phone and the police have been verifying her assertion, he added.
The police are “100%” certain that it was Shariful who attacked Khan and he was armed with a hacksaw blade and a knife too, insisted the official. The police crew will go to locations in West Bengal the place Shariful stayed after crossing over from the neighbouring nation, he added.
(With PTI Inputs)
