A holiday court in Mumbai on Sunday sent Mohammad Shariful Islam Shahzad, a 30-year-old man of Bangladeshi origin, to police custody for five days after he was arrested for allegedly stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan.
Shariful Islam has been accused of allegedly intruding into the house of actor Saif Ali Khan in Bandra on Thursday morning and attacking him with a sharp object. He was arrested on Saturday night from Thane and the police said he had changed his name to Vijay Das after entering India to hide his Bangladeshi origins.
Although investigators sought 14 days of custody of the accused, the court granted the police custody of five days only. While seeking his custody, the…