Saif Ali Khan on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, walked out of a Mumbai hospital five days after he was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder inside his 12th floor apartment in Bandra, necessitating surgery.
Clad in a white shirt and blue jeans, the 54-year-old actor was seen waving at the media and fans.
Saif was seen with a cast on his hand and a bandage on the right side of his neck as he walked briskly to a waiting black vehicle, accompanied by security personnel.
His wife Kareena Kapoor Khan was seen at the hospital shortly before he was discharged.
Saif, who suffered multiple stab injuries in the attack early on January 16, underwent emergency surgery at the hospital soon after he was admitted.
Doctors had earlier said Saif had three injuries, two on the hand and one on the right side of the neck, and the major injury was in the spine. They removed the sharp object that was lodged in the spine and repaired the injury.
He underwent two critical procedures during his hospital stay -- neurosurgery and plastic surgery.
Khan recovered well and was shifted from the intensive care unit on January 17 to a special room.
The police on Sunday arrested Bangladeshi national Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir (30) from neighbouring Thane city for the attack.
Fakir reportedly told the police that he stabbed Saif in his back multiple times to free himself from his tight grip, a police officer said.
After the attack, the intruder escaped from Saif's flat, and hid in the garden of the building for around two hours, the officer said.
"The accused entered the actor's flat from the bathroom window with the intention of theft. After he entered the house, the actor's staff spotted him and started arguing with him. Soon, Saif Ali Khan came there and sensing a threat, he held the accused tightly from the front," the officer said.
"As the accused did not get time to move, he started stabbing the actor in his back to free himself from the latter's grip. As Khan was injured in the attack, the accused managed to break free from his grip," he said.
Later, Saif locked the main door of his flat assuming that the attacker was still inside. However, the accused managed to flee using the same route through which he had entered, the officer said.
The police earlier said that the fingerprints of the accused had been found at the crime scene, including the bathroom window from where he entered and exited, the duct shaft and the ladder he used to enter from the duct.
Fakir, a native of Jhalokathi district in Bangladesh, had been residing in Mumbai for over five months, working odd jobs and associated with a housekeeping agency, they said.
A court in Mumbai on Sunday remanded the accused to five days in police custody.
The Mumbai police on Tuesday recreated the crime scene with the accused.
A team of 20 police officers reached the Satguru Sharan building in four police vans around 5.30 am and were on the premises for an hour.
The police team entered the building through the front gate with the accused, and also took him to the Bandra railway station, from where he had taken a train to Dadar, and to a place outside a garden where he had slept after the attack.
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