‘I promised Saif Ali Khan…’: Auto driver, who rushed actor to hospital, won’t disclose financial support he got; says moment changed his life

Mumbai, Maharashtra: Bhajan Singh Rana, the car operator who took histrion Saif Ali Khan to the infirmary aft helium was attacked, met the histrion aft helium was discharged from the infirmary yesterday.

Auto operator Bhajan Singh Rana says, “…They gave a clip of 3:30 PM, I said okay, and I… pic.twitter.com/knmztnk9E4

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Just earlier the actor’s discharge connected Tuesday evening, Rana had the accidental to conscionable Khan and his family. He paid his respects by touching the feet of Khan’s mother, seasoned histrion Sharmila Tagore, and shared that the household treated him with kindness, adjacent taking photos together.”I met him (Saif) yesterday (Tuesday) astatine the hospital. He called to convey maine for taking him to the hospital. He praised me. I got the blessings from him and his family. He (Khan) introduced maine to his parent (Sharmila Tagore), and I touched her feet. He gave maine (money) immoderate helium felt was right, and said whenever I request assistance helium volition beryllium there,” the auto-rickshaw operator said. Rana said helium has been inundated with calls from the media, friends, and relatives pursuing the quality of him taking Khan to the infirmary successful his auto-rickshaw.

“It was a regular time astatine enactment for me. I often thrust the car astatine night. I’ve been successful this assemblage for 15 years, but it has ne'er happened that a personage has traveled successful my auto. Since past (after taking Khan to hospital), my beingness seems to person changed. Today, astir everyone knows maine by my sanction and face,” Rana, who earns anyplace betwixt Rs 10,000 to 20,000 a month, said. The stabbing incidental occurred connected January 16, erstwhile Khan, 54, was attacked successful his 12th-floor flat successful the upscale Bandra country during an attempted robbery. He sustained aggregate stab wounds and underwent 2 surgeries astatine a adjacent backstage hospital.

Rana recounted his sojourn to Khan astatine the hospital, saying, “I met him yesterday (Tuesday) astatine the hospital. He called to convey maine for taking him to the hospital. He praised me. I got the blessings from him and his family.” Police person arrested the intruder, identified arsenic Shareeful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir, a 30-year-old Bangladeshi nationalist who illegally entered India past twelvemonth and assumed the alias Vijay Das. He is presently successful constabulary custody, and archetypal investigations bespeak helium intended to perpetrate theft during the attack.

Police person announced that aggregate departments from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) successful Kalina volition analyse cardinal grounds related to the case, including mobile phones, the accused’s clothing, and CCTV footage. Various forensic departments volition beryllium progressive successful the examination, arsenic investigators look challenges successful interrogating Fakir owed to connection barriers On Tuesday, constabulary reconstructed the series of events starring to the onslaught astatine Khan’s flat building, ‘Satguru Sharan,’ with the accused concisely taken to a adjacent determination to recreate the transgression scene.
Commenting connected Khan’s recovery, Shiv Sena person Sanjay Nirupam raised questions astir the actor’s swift instrumentality to wellness pursuing a six-hour country for heavy stab wounds.

“The doctors astatine Lilavati Hospital said the weapon had penetrated 2.5 inches wrong Saif Ali Khan’s back. They should clarify however a idiosyncratic who underwent specified an extended cognition tin retrieve truthful quickly,” Nirupam remarked.
Sanjay Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP from Shiv Sena (UBT), besides said that “the weapon was wedged deep, but Saif walked retired live from the hospital. This is thing abbreviated of a occurrence by the doctors.”