With almost 35 key witness accounts 25 CCTV footage matches and ‘indeniable’ forensic proof, Mumbai police has claimed to have filed a ‘sturdy’ chargesheet towards Bangladeshi nationwide Mohammed Shariful Fakir Islam, 30, who’s accused of attacking Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan on January 16 at his residence in Bandra (West).
The Bandra police submitted an over 1600-page chargesheet on Tuesday towards Shariful, who was arrested from a labour camp in Thane on January 19.
The police have included studies of the facial recognition check performed by the forensic laboratory within the chargesheet. “We had despatched round 300 CCTV footages to the FSL and out of that 25 footages matched with the face of the accused,” mentioned a police supply.
The CCTVs embrace cameras from inside Khan’s constructing, cameras put in round Khan’s constructing, at Bandra Railway station and CCTVs from Dadar and Worli, the place he had gone after the crime.
Moreover CCTVs, the police have additionally claimed to have included his cell phone location, and the IPDR (web protocol particulars report) to show the accused’s function and presence within the space on the time of the incident. Shariful had spoken to his household utilizing cell information to name from a messaging app.
Police have additionally connected the DNA check report and fingerprints report establishing Shariful’s presence at Khan’s home and in his constructing.
Forensic specialists have additionally established the piece of knife retrieved from Khan’s again to be the identical knife which was collected from Shariful’s bag, retrieved from the place he had dumped it in Bandra.
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Police have additionally included technical proof proving Shariful’s presence within the Bandra space as he labored at a lodge close to Khan’s constructing for a number of days. After being sacked from the Bandra lodge, Shariful roamed the realm and noticed its topography, one other police officer mentioned.
The chargesheet additionally features a Take a look at Identification Parade (TIP) through which eyewitnesses together with Khan’s son’s nanny Elliamma Philip, who can be the complainant within the case, recognized Shariful because the attacker.
Police have additionally added sections of the Passport Act as Shariful failed to supply any doc proving Indian nationality. Police have established that he’s a Bangladeshi nationwide.
Shariful is presently being held at Arthur Street Central Jail. His lawyer has already utilized for his bail and the matter is scheduled earlier than court docket on April 17.
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Police have additionally submitted particulars of the crime’s reconstruction through which Shariful defined how he climbed a four-feet wall, utilizing a ladder for the 12-feet ascent to the duct, accessing the fourth flooring, utilizing the steps to the tenth flooring, after which climbing by duct pipes to enter the flat’s lavatory. He mentioned he used the identical route to flee and needed to soar from the primary flooring as he didn’t discover the ladder instead.
The assault
On January 16, Shariful, who was carrying a knife and a stick, first hid within the lavatory and was confronted by the nanny Philip. In the course of the argument he demanded “(Rs) one crore”. Following which he had a scuffle with Philip. Seeing this, the opposite nannies screamed for assist, following which the actor, who was within the higher flooring of their duplex, got here downstairs and confronted Shariful. In the course of the transient confrontation, Shariful stabbed the actor six occasions. After that, others in the home managed to lock Shariful inside a room and escaped upstairs to the twelfth flooring. Nonetheless, the door wasn’t locked and Shariful managed to flee. Whereas an injured Khan was rushed to Lilavati hospital, police launched an enormous manhunt and, three days later, Shariful was arrested from a Thane labour camp.
