Mumbai, Jan 17: A day after Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed at his Mumbai residence, the city cops arrested a suspect after hours of manhunt by multiple police teams.

He is understood to be the attacker who stabbed Saif Ali Khan in an attempted burglary at the actor’s residence, though his identity and role in burglary is yet to be confirmed by the police.

As visuals surfaced this morning, the arrested suspect was seen being taken to Bandra police station. Details of his identity is yet to be known but police sources claim that he is the one who broke into the residence of Saif and Kareena’s house in the wee hours of Thursday.

The cops believe that the attacker had changed his clothes to avoid being spotted and nabbed. The suspect was seen near the Bandra railway station after the incident.

The suspect was caught on apartment’s CCTV cameras and was seen fleeing the building through the stairs, apparently after being confronted by the actor. The intruder managed to escape and was seen on CCTV on the sixth floor while climbing down the stairs. The photo of lean and thin ‘stabber’ also went viral on social media.

The actor lives with his family including wife Kareen Kapoor, two sons – Taimur and Jeh. The incident happened while all were at home. The thief had broken into their four-floor residence at the 12th floor of ‘Satguru Sharan’ apartment.

Saif was reportedly stabbed six times by the burglar, when he confronted him for trespassing into the house. The actor was rushed to a Lilavati Hospital of the city, where he underwent an emergency surgery and was declared out of danger, according to doctors.

The shocking incident of barging into Saif-Kareena residence at midnight triggered wave of concerns and criticism from the tinsel towns celebrities, with many asking Mumbai police to crack down on the miscreants.

Hyderabad, Jan 17: Hyderabad Police continued the hunt on Friday for two Bidar heist suspects who opened fire on manager of a private travel agency in the Afzalgunj area.

Police formed eight special teams to track down the suspects who escaped towards Tank Bund in an autorickshaw. After analysing the CCTV footage, the police found that the offenders headed towards Tank Bund in the three-wheeler. Police were trying to trace their movement from Tank Bund.

The suspects are believed to have escaped towards Secunderabad. Police personnel checked vehicles around railway and bus stations to prevent them from fleeing.

Meanwhile, a team of Bidar Police also reached Hyderabad for investigation. They suspect that the accused hail from Madhya Pradesh and were trying to escape via Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

One of the two men who are suspected to be involved in a Rs 93 lakh robbery in Bidar town of Karnataka, opened fire on the manager of a private travel agency in Afzalgunj when the latter found their movements suspicious and demanded them to open the bags they were carrying while boarding a bus to Raipur.

Jahangir, Roshan Travels’ ticket manager, was injured and admitted to Princess Essra Hospital in the old city. According to Moazzam of Roshan Travels, two persons came to the agency office to book tickets to Raipur in the name of Amit Kumar.

They boarded a minibus that was to take them and other passengers to the city outskirts, from where the bus for Raipur was to start. As the two men were found to be suspicious, the ticket manager insisted that they open their bags when they boarded the bus. One of them tried to hand over a bundle of currency notes to silence him.

However, Jahangir refused to take the money and ordered them to open the bags. One of them pulled out a weapon and opened fire on Jahangir.

The duo escaped towards Osmania Hospital. A couple of policemen from Karnataka were also on the bus. They were also going to Raipur for an investigation into another case.

B. Balaswami, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Zone) said special teams have been formed to track down the robbers. Police suspect that the assailants were involved in the sensational robbery in Bidar town on Thursday morning.

The bike-borne assailants shot six rounds killing a security guard and injuring another before decamping with Rs 93 lakh intended for loading at a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM at Shivaji Chowk in Bidar. The incident occurred around 11.30 a.m. as cash-loading staff arrived at the busy ATM location.

Kolkata, Jan 16: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, directed the West Bengal government to pay compensation to the families of all the victims who had fallen sick, with one woman and a child already dead, after being allegedly administered with expired Ringer’s Lactate at a state-run medical college and hospital last week.

While one woman, Mamoni Ruidas died on January 10, the latest victim on Thursday morning was the newborn baby of another mother Rekha Shaw, who had also fallen sick last week after being allegedly administered with the expired Ringer’s Lactate. Three other women are currently under treatment.

Two public interest litigations (PILs) were filed in the matter earlier this week at the Calcutta High Court.

Acting on the PILs, the Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hirnamay Bhattacharya, on Thursday, besides directing the state government to pay compensation to the families of the victims, also directed the administration to submit an action-take report in the matter to the court within the next two week.

In the report, the division bench directed the Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, to elaborate on the details of actions taken against the Ringer’s Lactate supplying entity Paschim Banga Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, which was blacklisted first by the Karnataka government and subsequently by the West Bengal government.

Meanwhile, the state health department has already ordered the removal of the erstwhile special secretary to the state health department (medicine department) Chaitali Chakraborty in connection with the “expired” saline tragedy. She has been replaced by Suvanjan Das.

On Wednesday, the leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari demanded that Central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) be involved in the ongoing probe into the matter being conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police and a team of the state health department.

The state health department first directed the medical superintendents-cum-vice principals of all medical colleges and hospitals and all the chief medical officers of the districts “to ensure total stoppage of the existing stock of Compound Sodium Lactate Injection (RL) supplied by Paschim Banga Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd in his/her jurisdiction”. Later, the state government also directed the removal of stocks of all medicines supplied by the said company from all healthcare entities in the state.