BOLLYWOOD star Saif Ali Khan has met auto-rickshaw driver Bhajan Singh Rana, who rushed him to hospital after he was injured in the knife attack at his home in Mumbai, and thanked him for the help. The actor also gave the driver some money and assured all help to him whenever needed. Khan (54) was repeatedly stabbed with a knife by an intruder inside his 12th-floor apartment in the upscale Bandra area in the wee hours of January 16. The actor suffered multiple stab injuries in the attack and underwent an emergency surgery at the Lilavati Hospital. He returned home on Tuesday. Khan met Singh Rana on Tuesday at the hospital before getting discharged. “I met him (Saif) yesterday at the hospital. He called to thank me, to help him reach the hospital.

 

He praised me. I got the blessings from him and his family,” the auto-rickshaw driver told PTI. “He (Khan) introduced me to his mother (Sharmila Tagore), and I touched her feet. He gave me (money) whatever he felt was right, and said whenever I need help he will be there,” Singh Rana said. Saif attack case: Multiple departments of forensic lab to examine evidence: MULTIPLE departments under the Forensic Science Laboratory at Kalina in Mumbai will examine key pieces of evidence seized by the police investigating actor Saif Ali Khan knife attack case, officials said on Wednesday. Police on Sunday arrested the attacker, identified as Bangladeshi national Shareeful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir, for stabbing Khan at his Bandra apartment on January 16 during a burglary bid.

 

A variety of materials, including mobile phones, clothes of the accused, and CCTV footage seized following the arrest of Fakir (30) alias Vijay Das, have been sent to the FSL for examination. FSL departments such as Tape Authentication and Speaker Identification (TASI), Biology, DNA, Footprints, Physics, Cyber, and others will be involved in analysing the evidence, a police official said. An official said police didn’t notice blood stains on the clothes of the accused seized from his bag when he was arrested from Thane. The official said investigators are facing difficulty in interrogating Fakir due to the language barrier as he speaks Hindi with a heavy Bangladeshi accent. The accused has been asked to speak slowly so that police could decipher his statements, the official added. Police on Tuesday reconstructed the sequence of events of the crime unfolded at Khan’s building in Bandra. The accused was taken to a nearby building briefly during the recreation of the crime, the official added. A day before, Khan was discharged from a private hospital in Mumbai after five days during which he underwent two surgeries.