Actor Saif Ali Khan suffered multiple injuries during a violent confrontation with an intruder at his home. Questions remain regarding the timeline of his arrival at the hospital and the identity of the accused,
Less than a week after being stabbed by an intruder at his home in Mumbai, actor Saif Ali Khan was seen on Tuesday smiling and waving at the cameras after being discharged from Lilavati Hospital. The video has led to some politicians raising questions about the knife attack on him.
The accused in the actor Saif Ali Khan stabbing case was on Friday sent to Police custody till Wednesday. Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir was arrested from Thane on January 19. The accused, who is an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, was then sent to a five-day police custody, which was ending on Friday.
Mohammad Ruhul Amin Fakir maintained that his son has been falsely arrested as he was an easy target as he had entered India illegally.
Ruhul Amin Fakir, father of Shariful Islam Shehzad who has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly breaking into Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan's house, has claimed that the person seen in CCTV footage breaking into the house is not his son. Fakir told BBC Bangla that he came to know about his son's arrest in India through TV channels and Facebook.
The magistrate's court extended the police custody of Shareeful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir till January 29
Saif Ali Khan has returned home safely after being in the hospital for over five days, after his attack. The Mumbai Police managed to arrest the attacker Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad, alias Bijoy Das,
The father of Shariful Islam Shehzad, the suspected attacker of Saif Ali Khan, denied previous reports that he was a wrestler, claiming he was a bike rider in Bangladesh.
Following multiple reports, political leaders have now begun questioning the polices handling of the arrest. Father of the arrested accused have also cried foul.
In a 12-minute interview, Mohammad Ruhul, the father of Shariful Islam, told PTI from Bangaldesh that his son did not have proper documentation for his stay in India and he lived in constant fear of being arrested.
Police on Friday told a Mumbai court that they needed to conduct a facial recognition test of the Bangladeshi man arrested for allegedly stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan to ascertain that he was the one in the CCTV footage.