Police suspect that more than one person may be involved in the knife attack on actor Saif Ali Khan. An official gave this information on Saturday. A 30-year-old Bangladeshi citizen has been arrested in this case.
The officer said the police had requested the custody of the arrested accused citing suspicion of involvement of more people in the crime.
He said police collected blood samples and clothes of Khan and his employees after the attack on the actor’s house in Bandra on January 16 and have sent them to the Forensic Science Laboratory for testing.
Police had arrested Bangladeshi national Shariful Islam Shahzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir alias Vijay Das from neighboring Thane city on January 19 on charges of attack.
On Friday, a court extended Shariful’s police custody till January 29.
The officer said the accused is not cooperating with the investigation team and has not yet disclosed from where he had purchased the knife used in the crime.
He said that blood samples and clothes of the actor and the accused have been sent to FSL to find out whether the blood on the clothes of the accused was Khan’s or not. He said the fingerprints collected from Khan’s apartment matched those of the accused.
On Friday, Khan recorded her statement before the Mumbai Police, in which she said that the accused demanded Rs 1 crore and attacked the domestic help, and when she tried to stop him, the assailant attacked her with a knife multiple times. Did it and ran away.
Khan, 54, had to undergo emergency surgery at Lilavati Hospital after the attack last week.
