Mumbai Police on Monday conducted a search operation in the Nadia district of West Bengal and questioned a woman in the Saif Ali Khan stabbing case. An India TV source said that the investigation has revealed that the SIM used by the Bangladeshi citizen Shariful Fakir questioned earlier in Mumbai had a registered number in the name of the questioned woman.
A woman questioned from Nadia district
A two-member team of Mumbai Police reached West Bengal on Sunday. A West Bengal Police source said, “Mumbai Police has questioned a woman from Chapra in Nadia district in the attack on the Saif Ali Khan case. Police can apply for transit remand to take her to Mumbai.”
The attacker came in contact with this woman
The woman’s name is Khukhumoni Jahangir Sheikh, and she is an acquaintance of the questioned Bangladeshi Shariful Fakir. The source said, “Fakir had entered India illegally through the India-Bangladesh border near Siliguri and came in contact with this woman. The woman is a resident of Andulia in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.”
The SIM card used by the accused who attacked Saif Ali Khan was in the name of a woman from West Bengal, Khukumoi Jahangir Sheikh. The Mumbai Police team went to West Bengal and recorded the statement of that woman.
Here’s what the woman said
The woman said in her statement that her phone was stolen. So far, the police have questioned the woman and recorded her statement. She has neither been detained nor arrested by the Mumbai Police. The team is now looking for the agent who helped the accused infiltrate India.
Regarding the identification of the accused, the police claim that they have several hours of CCTV footage of the accused. The police have not received any negative reports in terms of evidence in this case. The police have all the evidence and facts on the basis of which they can prove that they have arrested the right accused.
In the investigation done so far, the police have found out that the accused planned the attack on Saif’s house alone, and the involvement of any other person has not been revealed in the investigation.
(With PTI inputs)
