Saif Ali Khan stabbed: 30 minutes in the dead of night, Rs 1 crore demand, the attack and the escape (original) (raw)

The suspected break-in at actor Saif Ali Khan’s house lasted for about half-an-hour, from about 2 am on Thursday, when the intruder was first seen in the room of the actor’s younger son by the nanny there. He allegedly attacked the nanny, demanded Rs 1 crore, before stabbing Khan and another member of the staff.

These details are part of the FIR based on the statement of Eliyamma Philip, 56, the nanny of Khan’s four-year-old son Jehangir.

According to the FIR, while the family resides in a duplex (11th and 12th floor), the incident took place on the 11th floor which has three rooms — one occupied by Khan and his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan, another by their son Taimur (8) and his nanny Geeta, and the third by Jehangir, Philip and another nanny, Junu.

In her statement, Philip said that she and Junu put Jehangir to bed at around 11 pm on Wednesday and went to sleep in the same room.

At around 2 am, Philip said, she woke up abruptly on hearing a sound. She saw the room’s door was open and the bathroom light was on. She first thought Kareena had come to check on the child, she said.

“I sensed something suspicious and again woke up and sat up. I then saw the shadow of a man wearing a cap. When I tried to see who was there, I saw a person coming out of the bathroom and moving towards Jaybaba’s (Jehangir’s) bed,” Philip said in her statement.

Scenes outside Saif Ali Khan’s residence in Bandra (West). (Express Photo)

“I immediately got up and went towards his bed. Seeing me, the man signalled me to stay quiet and said, ‘no awaaz (no sound)’. By then, Junu also woke up. The man again threatened, ‘koi awaaz nahi, aur koi bahar bhi nahi aayega’ (don’t make any sound, and nobody will go outside),” she said.

“When I asked him, ‘aapko kya chahiye (what do you want?)’, he replied, ‘paisa chahiye (I want money)’. When I asked him how much, he responded saying ‘one crore’,” she said.

Philip said she then tried to approach the child. “The man marched towards me with a stick in his left hand and a hexa blade like sharp weapon in the other hand… the intruder then entered into a scuffle with me and attacked me. As I tried to defend, my fingers on both hands and my right wrist were injured,” she said.

According to the FIR, Junu then raised an alarm and ran out, after which Khan and Kareena came into their son’s room. “When Saif Sir came, the accused attacked him with the hexa blade and then also attacked Geeta, who had also come and tried to intervene,” Philip said in her statement.

Khan and Geeta somehow managed to overpower the attacker and all of them ran out of the room and shut it from outside, leaving the accused inside. They then rushed to the upper floor of the duplex, according to the FIR.

Following the commotion, four other employees of the family also woke up. When they then went to the room in which they had left the attacker, they found the door was open and he had escaped, Philip said in her statement.

She said they later realised that the actor had “sustained injuries on his neck, back, hand and shoulder, and Geeta had injury marks on her face, wrist and back”.

In her description of the attacker, Philip said he seemed to be in the age group of 30-35 years, was wearing black pants, a shirt and a cap.

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