Mumbai:
The man who stabbed Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan – at his home in Mumbai’s posh Bandra West neighbourhood early Thursday morning – demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore, police sources told NDTV, citing a statement by a member of Mr Khan’s domestic staff.
Three people, including Mr Khan, were injured in the knife attack that followed the ransom demand. Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times, resulting in injuries to his hand and neck, and near his spinal cord. He was rushed to the city’s Lilavati Hospital – by his son Ibrahim in an auto-rickshaw after his car was delayed – where doctors performed emergency surgery.
The actor’s medical condition is now stable, doctors have said.
Mr Khan and his family – wife and fellow actor Kareena Kapoor Khan and their sons – live in an apartment – spread over four floors – in a twelve-storey building in Bandra West.
Earlier today police sources told NDTV the attacker – who was looking to burgle the apartment – entered the compound via an adjacent. He was spotted in CCTV footage from a stairwell in the actor’s home; he can be seen in a t-shirt and jeans, with an orange scarf on his shoulder.