Thursday, January 16, 2025 - Bollywood star, Saif Ali Khan is recovering and no longer in danger, police said on Thursday, January 16, following stab injuries he received during a scuffle with an intruder at his home in Mumbai which resulted in him undergoing immediate surgery.
Khan, 54, is the son of former India cricket captain Mansur Ali
Khan Pataudi and actress Sharmila Tagore.
“He (Khan) is being treated … and is out of danger,” senior police
officer Gedam Dixit told Reuters.
Earlier, news agency ANI quoted hospital official Niraj Uttamani
as saying, “He is currently undergoing surgery,” and adding, “The extent of the
damage will be understood once the surgery is complete.”
A small piece of a foreign body had been identified close to the
spine, added Uttamani, the chief operating officer of the hospital where Khan
was taken at around 3:30 a.m.
Khan, who has featured in more than 70 films and television
series, in some also as a producer, lives in an apartment in the western suburb
of Bandra, along with his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan, who is also an actor, and
their two children.
Representatives of his wife confirmed Khan was undergoing a procedure
after the burglary attempt, adding, “The rest of the family is doing fine.”
A female employee at their home was also attacked and was being treated,
added police, who have launched an investigation and a search for the
perpetrator.
Film stars have called on police to beef up security measures in the
city.
“If such high-profile
people with … security can be attacked in their homes, what could happen to
common citizens?” Clyde Crasto, spokesperson of the Sharad Pawar-led
Nationalist Congress Party, asked on X.
Actor and filmmaker Pooja Bhatt also called for a
greater police presence in the suburbs home to many in the film industry.
“The city, and
especially the queen of the suburbs, have never felt so unsafe before,” she
said on X, using a popular description for the trendy area.
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