NEW DELHI: The Mumbai Police on Sunday arrested a man accused of stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan at his house.
The accused was arrested in Thane three days after attacking the actor, reported news agency ANI citing Mumbai Police.
Police said that the accused initially said his name Bijoy Das but later disclosed that his name was Mohammed Sajjad. The cops said they were verifying the identity of the man.
A DCP from Mumbai police, who was part of the combing operation, confirmed that Das was found sleeping under dried grass and leaves deep inside the bushes.
“The accused initially worked here hence he was aware of the location and found it safe to hole up,” a senior officer said. Following his arrest, Das was transported to Mumbai for further investigation.
Less than 24 hours after Khan was stabbed multiple times in his Bandra apartment, a CCTV image emerged showing the attacker running away from the staircase after the incident.
The attacker, who stabbed Saif Ali Khan inside his 12th-floor apartment in Bandra, was seen on the staircase of the sixth floor in the CCTV footage.
Earlier on Saturday, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested a suspect at Chattisgarh’s Durg railway station in connection with the stabbing attack on Saif Ali Khan at his home in Mumbai earlier this week.
The detained suspect, Aakash Kailash Kannojia (31), was travelling on the Jnaneshwari Express from Mumbai LTT to Kolkata Shalimar.
The suspect had been previously captured on CCTV footage descending a staircase in the actor’s building. In another CCTV footage, he was seen buying earphones from an electronics shop.
Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan on Thursday underwent surgery at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital to remove a part of a broken knife lodged close to his spinal cord after being repeatedly stabbed by an intruder at his Bandra residence.
Khan, 54, a prominent Bollywood actor, sustained multiple stab wounds during an attempted robbery at his 12th floor residence in Mumbai’s Bandra area early Thursday morning. However, doctors have announced that he was out of danger would be discharged soon.
