Defence Counsel, Netizens Cast Doubts Over Nationality of Saif's Attacker

Sources in the Mumbai Police have claimed here on Monday that the alleged attacker of actor Saif Ali Khan confessed to have attacked the actor even as several netizens, through their X accounts, questioned the police's statement that the attacker is a Bangladeshi.

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The sources have been quoted as claiming that the accused has confessed that he attacked actor Saif Ali Khan.

Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 9, Dixit Gedam has stated that the name of Khan's attacker is Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad who, he said, is "a Bangladeshi national", who allegedly crossed over to India illegally. "We arrested the accused from Thane last night. He has been identified as Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad of Bangladeshi origin. We have applied sections of the Passports Act against him as he could not produce any proof to show he was Indian and we found some proof to show that he is Bangladeshi," Gedam said.

The police claimed that the accused hails from the Jhalokathi district in Bangladesh's Barisal division and that he used to be a "national-level wrestler".