The 30-year-old Bangladeshi national has applied for bail for allegedly stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan at his home in Bandra, claiming that a false case has been registered against him. In a request from the conference court on Friday, the defendant Mohammad Sharlifile Islim Shehzad claimed that “the first information report was obviously false and that he had been registered in the wrong case”.
Khan (54) was stabbed several times by an intruder in his 12-story apartment in high-end Bandra on January 16. He underwent emergency surgery at Lilavati Hospital. Two days after the attack, police arrested Sharsiful.
The defendant claimed in his plea that his arrest was illegal because the investigative agency “clearly and blatantly ignored” Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) Article 47. Article 47 concerns the reasons for arrest and right of bail to notify a person.
The request says that even if the words of the witness are regarded as gospel truth without acknowledging anything controversial, it is for the sake of argument that it cannot satisfy the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) verse 311 (the intention of robbery or dacoity, both cause death or cause death or suffer).
In a request made through Ajay Gawali, he said that all necessary recovery and discovery had been completed, the investigation was in fact complete, and only the charge form was applied for. The bail request stated that the defendant cooperated with the investigation to “a purpose of further detaining him in detention for useless purposes.” The request will be heard on April 1.
