Mumbai

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who continues to recover after a knife attack, will not be discharged on Monday in all likelihood.

The team of medical professionals has decided to keep the actor under supervision for one more day. Sources said the actor will be discharged either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Saif was stabbed multiple times in an attempt to fight off a burglar during the wee hours of Thursday. The actor sustained six stab wounds, two of which are said to be serious as they are closer to his spine. The incident took place at 2:15 am when the burglar allegedly barged into their Bandra home, and attacked their house help and then Saif when he intervened.

The actor was woken up by the commotion in his son Jeh’s room. He went inside the room to see the culprit arguing with their house help, looking at this, Saif intervened to save the house help with bare hands to fight off the intruder.

Mumbai police have arrested the accused from Thane, and have claimed he was a Bangladeshi national who illegally entered India.

The attacker, identified as Mohammed Shehzad, was a national-level wrestling champion when he resided in Bangladesh.

Earlier, Shehzad, in his statement, said that he was unaware of the actor's identity. He is in police custody after being produced in the Bandra Court on Sunday.

The accused’s statement about him being oblivious to the actor's celebrity status seem to be congruent to the statement of the rickshaw driver, who also said that he didn’t realise that he was taking the Bollywood actor to the hospital. The rickshaw driver also said that the actor’s elder son, Taimur, from his marriage with Kareena Kapoor Khan, accompanied him to the police station.

At the time of the incident, the actor’s wife Kareena Kapoor Khan was present at home along with other members of the family as they all were sleeping.