Days after attack on actor Saif Ali Khan, questions that remain unanswered

The incidental raises the pursuing questions:

Question 1: In emergencies similar this, among the archetypal things that should person been done was to dial the 100 fig for the constabulary power room, alert the constabulary and telephone for an ambulance. Why was this not done? Why was the gathering information not alerted?

Question 2: Khan stays successful a heavy guarded 12-storey apartment, retired of which helium owns the quadruplex connected the apical floors. So, however did the gathering information not announcement a alien entering the gathering astatine 2 am? The information failed to announcement the intruder leaving the gathering aft the incidental arsenic well. How is that possible? Apart from information guards, determination is physics surveillance successful astir each gathering successful Mumbai. CCTVs are installed everywhere. In galore societies, determination are mobile app-based signaling systems of each idiosyncratic entering the society. Does this mean that the intruder knew however to bypass the surveillance system? If yes, it would mean that helium mightiness person been acquainted with the information apparatus.

Kareena Kapoor Khan visits Lilavati Hospital successful Bandra aft her hubby Saif Ali Khan was attacked connected Thursday morning. (Express Photo: Ganesh Shirshekar)

Question 3: How did the intruder cognize which 1 of the 4 floors helium had to participate and wherever to go? Apart from adjacent household members and location staff, not galore radical would beryllium alert of the level Khan and his household enactment on. This besides gives emergence to a suspicion that possibly the intruder knew oregon was acquainted with the house’s layout.

Question 4: If the intruder truly was a thief, past wherefore did helium not effort to bargain anything? Khan’s woman histrion Kareena has reportedly told the constabulary that determination was jewellery and valuables kept successful the unfastened successful the house, but they were near untouched. And, if helium planned to extort wealth by taking Khan’s lad — helium was moving towards his youngest son’s country erstwhile the alarm was raised — arsenic hostage, past what happened afterwards rings anomalous. It indicates helium did not travel prepared for a robbery which has been alleged.

Question 5: The quality of the injuries sustained by Khan indicates that these are not injuries from an intruder oregon thief trying to support himself oregon attempting to flee. The injuries are superior and look to beryllium inflicted successful choler oregon with intent. A thief oregon intruder who has been exposed will, successful each probabilities, stab erstwhile oregon doubly to flee. Such injuries are of a antithetic quality and not similar the ones Khan sustained.

Question 6: Despite determination being astatine slightest 10 adults successful the house, however did the intruder negociate to flee, particularly aft brutally attacking Khan? Since the intruder was outmanned, helium could person been overpowered and captured. According to the police, each those contiguous successful the location turned their attraction to the injured Khan. In that commotion, the intruder allegedly escaped from the country helium was locked in. Even if that is what happened, wherefore weren’t the gathering information alerted? And however did the intruder exit the gathering without being noticed oregon stopped by the watchmen of the building?

Question 7: Why didn’t those contiguous successful the location unreserved Khan to the hospital? The Khans reportedly person respective cars and drivers, truthful wherefore was helium rushed to the infirmary successful an autorickshaw? There is disorder adjacent connected who accompanied Khan to the hospital. As per immoderate reports, it was his eldest lad Ibrahim, who lives elsewhere, portion others assertion it was seven-year-old Taimur who travelled with Khan successful the autorickshaw.

The Mumbai Police volition person to find answers to these questions astatine the earliest truthful that it becomes wide what took spot that night. A water-tight lawsuit volition person to beryllium built up to guarantee condemnation of the guilty.

Investigations So Far

From what we person seen truthful far, the alleged intruder was a operation of a dumb thief and an intelligent intruder. He was dumb capable to beryllium ill-prepared for stealing thing and intelligent capable to get successful and retired of the location similar a ghost. It means that the thief knew the layout of Khan’s location highly good and helium was besides acquainted with the locality. He could get successful and retired of the country without detection.

In the near-four days aft the incident, the Mumbai Police on with the Mumbai Crime Branch, Thane Police, Navi Mumbai and Railway Police person made much than 60 teams and person fanned retired crossed the magnitude and breadth of the country. There are reports that the Railway Police person detained 1 fishy successful Chhattisgarh, portion the Thane Police person detained different suspect, reportedly of Bangladeshi origin, hiding successful the Hiranandani Estate who is being questioned.

What next?

As the constabulary absorption connected unravelling the case, the incidental has erstwhile again brought to airy the glaring lapses successful information successful our high-profile lodging societies. Despite installing high-tech information gadgets and quality surveillance, crimes are expanding and we, the citizens of Mumbai, proceed to beryllium vulnerable. Here are a fewer information solutions to support successful mind:

• The authorities and constabulary volition person to guarantee that each societies, localities person capable CCTVs installed. These indispensable beryllium functional astatine each times.
• Societies oregon clusters should beryllium encouraged to person a stand-by doc and an ambulance successful their area, truthful that the aureate hr of aesculapian attraction is not lost.
• Wealthy individuals and high-profile societies should beryllium encouraged to person their ain backstage Quick Response Teams (QRT) who are trained to grip immoderate situation oregon exigency earlier the constabulary and different exigency services arrive.
• High-profile individuals and VIPs should beryllium encouraged to person their ain trained information personnel.
• Emergency numbers of the police, occurrence brigade, ambulances and different archetypal responders should beryllium displayed prominently successful each society.

The writer is the Director General of Police (DGP) (Retired), Maharashtra, erstwhile constabulary commissioner of Mumbai & ex-chief of the elite Mumbai Crime Branch. He is besides an award-winning author