New Delhi, May 10 -- In January 2025, Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed by an intruder at his Mumbai home. The accused, Mohammad Shariful Islam is now in Arthur Road Jail.

Now, the 30-year-old Bangladeshi national has claimed that his arrest was illegal. The police did not give him proper information at the time of his arrest, he claims.

On May 9, he withdrew his earlier bail plea and filed a new request through his lawyer Ajay Gawli. Shariful has asked the Bandra court to declare the arrest unlawful.

According to him, police "clearly and blatantly disregarded" Section 47 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), per PTI. The Indian law requires police to inform the arrested person of the reason for arrest and the right...