Saif Ali Khan Stabbing: Bangladeshi Arrested, Sent To Police Custody

The accused in Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan's attack case, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad, has been remanded to 5-day police custody by a court in Mumbai’s Bandra. He is a Bangladeshi national.

Jan 19, 2025 - 19:01
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Saif Ali Khan Stabbing: Bangladeshi Arrested, Sent To Police Custody

The accused in Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan's attack case, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad, has been remanded to 5-day police custody by a court in Mumbai’s Bandra. The accused will remain under police custody till January 24. This comes after the Mumbai Police, investigating the case, sought his 14-day custody.

Shariful Islam (30) was arrested from Thane district in the wee hours of Sunday.

The Mumbai Police told the court that Islam was a Bangladeshi national and there was a need to find the motive behind the heinous crime. Police also told the court they needed to find out if there was an international conspiracy linked to the case. Shariful, according to police, crossed into India illegally and had been living in Mumbai for the past few months under the false name of Bijoy Das.

Accepting the police’s contention after perusing documents on record, the court said the prosecution’s submission of international conspiracy “cannot be said to be impossible". While passing the order, the Bandra Holiday Court observed that the demand of accused’s police custody is justified as “it is an early stage of investigation."

The lawyer representing the accused told the court that the allegations against him were false and that the matter is in focus because a celebrity has been targeted. The accused's lawyer said he was being made a scapegoat in the high-profile case. Dinesh Prajapati, who represented the accused, told the media, "We have said in his defence that nothing has been recovered from him. They have not produced any document to prove he is a Bangladeshi national.

Earlier in the day, Mumbai Police identified the attacker as Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad. He was apprehended in the Labour Camp area of adjoining Thane city. As per preliminary probe, he had entered the Bollywood star’s home, in Satguru Sharan building in Bandra, in the early hours of January 16 with the intention of robbery.

Police revealed that Shariful had been working as housekeeping staff at Ricky’s bar in Thane and used different names to avoid detection.

Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times, including in his neck and shoulder, at his Bandra West apartment around 2:30 am on Thursday. He was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital for treatment where a 2.5-inch piece of the blade was removed from his spine after a five-hour-long surgery.

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