Friday, January 17, 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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