DURG —
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) detained a suspect in the case of knife
attack on actor Saif Ali Khan from a train at Durg railway station in
Chhattisgarh on Saturday afternoon, an official said.
The man, identified as Aakash Kailash Kannojia (31), was
traveling by Jnaneshwari Express which runs between Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus (LTT) to Kolkata Shalimar, the RPF official said.
Around 12.30 pm, the RPF Post Durg received information from
Mumbai Police about the suspect in Saif Ali Khan stabbing case travelling by
Jnaneswari Express, and shared the location of his mobile phone and his photo,
he said.
RPF Durg alerted its counterpart at Rajnandgaon station
(which comes before Durg on Mumbai-Howrah route) but the suspect could not be
located when the train halted there, the official said.
Two teams were kept ready at the Durg station, and on the
arrival of the train, the suspect was found in the front general compartment,
he said.
His photo was sent to Mumbai Police who confirmed his
identity, the official said. The intruder who attacked Khan had been captured
in CCTV footage while going down a staircase at the actor's building.
A Mumbai Police team is expected to reach Raipur by a flight
in the evening and take his custody.
Khan, 54, a popular Bollywood star, was stabbed repeatedly
by an intruder during a robbery attempt at his 12th floor residence in Mumbai's
Bandra area early Thursday morning.
The actor was recovering from his injuries, as per the
doctors treating him.
