More than 30 hours have passed, 20 teams are at work, but there is no sign of Saif Ali Khan’s assailant

Mumbai, More than 30 hours have passed but the Mumbai police are yet to arrest the man who stabbed actor Saif Ali Khan several times at his luxury apartment in the city’s Bandra area, an official said on Friday.

The city police have formed 20 teams to trace and nab the assailant and are tapping their network of informers to trace him, officials said.

The crime branch and the local police have collected technical data, including the number of mobile phones that were active in the area when the actor was attacked in an “attempted robbery” at his apartment located in Satguru Sharan House, a police official said.

He said evidence was collected from Khan’s house and building with the help of forensic teams and a canine unit, and searches were conducted at many locations in Mumbai to track down the attacker.

The 54-year-old was stabbed six times, including in the neck, during the attack at around 2.30am on Thursday. According to the doctors who treated him, he was out of danger after emergency surgery at Lilavati Hospital, where he was rushed. He remains in the hospital.

Police are examining CCTV footage from the building, which shows the attacker, armed with a wooden stick and a long Hexa blade, fleeing after the attack.

The footage, taken at 2:33 a.m., clearly shows the young suspect’s face. He is seen wearing a brown collared T-shirt and a red scarf as he descends the stairs on the building’s sixth floor. The actor lives on the 12th floor.

Besides Khan, the home’s nurse, Eliama Philip, 56, who is the complainant, and a domestic servant sustained blade injuries in the incident, an official said on Thursday.

The whole family – Khan, his wife and co-star Kareena Kapoor, and their two sons, four-year-old Jeh and eight-year-old Taimur – were at home in the 12th-floor flat with five other housemates. In a statement to police, babysitter Jeha Philip, who first confronted the gunman, said he asked ₹1 crore According to police officials, the attacker did not break into the actor’s apartment or break into the actor’s apartment, but probably sneaked in at some point during the night with the intention of robbing.

According to her, the man pointed his finger at her and warned, “Koi awaaz nahin .

Hearing her cry, Khan and Karina ran out of the room. The assailant, who Philip said was between 35 and 40 years old, then attacked Khan with a knife.

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