Saif Ali Khan Meets Bhajan Singh Rana, The Auto Driver Who Saved His Life, Hugs Him

Actor Saif Ali Khan met Bhajan Singh Rana, the rickshaw driver who saved his life, to personally thank him for his timely help.

Actor Saif Ali Khan met Bhajan Singh Rana, the rickshaw driver who saved his life, to personally thank him for his timely help. Accompanied by his mother Sharmila Tagore, Saif expressed heartfelt gratitude and urged Rana to keep extending his kindness to others. Saif also promised to settle the unpaid fare and offered his support should Rana ever need it.

 

The two met for five minutes on Tuesday, just before the actor was discharged from Lilavati Hospital. Saif hugged Rana and expressed his gratitude for his timely and selfless help.

Saif Ali Khan discharged from the hospital on Tuesday

Saif Ali Khan returned home on Tuesday with a bright smile, five days after surviving a violent knife attack at his Mumbai apartment. The 54-year-old actor was stabbed in the neck and spine by an intruder in the early hours of Thursday, leaving him with serious injuries that required both neurosurgery for a spinal injury and plastic surgery for the wounds on his neck and hands.

 

Saif, dressed in a white shirt and blue jeans, exited Lilavati Hospital with his hand bandaged. He waved at the cameras and expressed heartfelt gratitude for the tremendous support he had received during his recovery. As he made his way to a waiting car, accompanied by his security team, his wife, actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, was also seen at the hospital shortly before his discharge.

 

Mumbai police arrested the intruder

The Mumbai police had arrested the 30-year-old suspect, Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir, a Bangladeshi national, who allegedly carried out the attack. Fakir is currently in police custody.

According to police, the accused had entered Saif's 12th-floor apartment in the 'Satguru Sharan' building in Bandra with the intention of stealing valuables. The actor's staff noticed him and confronted the intruder, which led to a confrontation. Saif, sensing danger, quickly intervened and restrained Fakir. However, to free himself, the assailant repeatedly stabbed the actor in the back, causing significant injuries.

Despite the attack, Saif managed to hold onto the intruder long enough to alert others. Fakir eventually broke free, fleeing the scene through the bathroom window—the same route he had entered. The actor, fearing the assailant was still inside, locked the main door before realizing the attacker had escaped.

Police later confirmed that Fakir's fingerprints were found at multiple locations, including the bathroom window, duct shaft, and the ladder he had used to enter the apartment.

Fakir, who had been residing in Mumbai for over five months, was working in odd jobs and associated with a housekeeping agency. The police conducted a reenactment of the crime scene on Tuesday morning, bringing Fakir back to the building and to locations he had visited after the attack, including the spot where he had hidden and slept following the incident.