Saif Ali Khan Assault Case: Attacker Sent To 5-Day Police Custody-OxBig News Network

Saif Ali Khan Attacked: A Mumbai court on Sunday remanded an accused arrested in the Saif Ali Khan assault case in police custody till January 24 after observing that the police’s contention of an international conspiracy cannot be ruled out.

#WATCH | Maharashtra: Saif Ali Khan Attack case | Accused Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad taken from the Bandra Holiday Court in Mumbai. The Court has granted his 5-day police custody. pic.twitter.com/BQoVyyRcSm

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Police told the court that the alleged attacker was a Bangladeshi national and there was a need to find the motive behind his act. Police also told the court they needed to find out if there was an international conspiracy linked to the case, as reported by news agency PTI.

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.”

Earlier in the day, police had told the media that alleged attacker Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad was a Bangladeshi national who had illegally entered India and changed his name to Bijoy Das. He was held from adjoining Thane city.

As per a preliminary probe, he had entered the Bollywood star’s home, in the Satguru Sharan building in Bandra, in the early hours of January 16 with the intention of theft, police had said. Khan (54) was stabbed multiple times in the attack, after which he underwent a five-hour surgery in nearby Lilavati Hospital.

(With PTI Inputs)