Saif Ali Khan's sister Saba Ali Khan praises two female staffers for their bravery on the day of attack at her actor brother

Saif Ali Khan's sister Saba Ali Khan posted pictures of the two female staffers who bravely faced the intruder on the night of the attack saving his young child Jeh and the actor too.

It was Eliyamma Philip, who has first spotted the intruder in the actor's Bandra Home, and ran to save Saif and Kareena's younger son Jeh. Since the intruder, now recognised as a Bangladeshi, rushed towards Jeh's room. She held on to the young boy and in turn was also attacked by the intruder.

Taimur's nanny also got injured while trying to fight off the intruder on the night on January 16 when Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times. The actor is now safe and is on a path to recovery.

He was discharged yesterday (January 21) and also waved to the media as he made his entry into his building amid tight security.

Saba shared the picture of the two nannies on her Insta story with a sticker 'You are our Hero'.

She wrote: "The unsung heroes, who literally pulled their weight when it mattered most! Bless you both an all those who contributed in keeping my brother n his family safe. You are the Best."

Saif Ali Khan returned home on Tuesday, a little wan but smiling broadly as he left a Mumbai hospital five days after an intruder stabbed him inside his apartment with a knife in the neck and spine.

The 54-year-old actor underwent a neurosurgery to treat a spinal injury and a plastic surgery to repair wounds on his neck and hands at Lilavati Hospital after he was stabbed by an intruder in the early hours of Thursday last week in his 12th floor flat in 'Satguru Sharan' building in upscale in Bandra.

As he exited the hospital, Saif Khan, wearing a white shirt and a pair of blue jeans, waved to waiting cameras, his hand bandaged, and expressed heartfelt gratitude for the support he received throughout his recovery process.

Saif got into a waiting black vehicle, accompanied by security personnel. His wife, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, was also seen at the hospital shortly before he was discharged.

The Mumbai police have arrested the intruder who allegedly stabbed the Bollywood actor. The accused, identified as Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir (30), a Bangladeshi national, is at present in police custody.

The 30-year-old accused, arrested from adjoining Thane city on Sunday, has told the police he stabbed the actor in his back multiple times to free himself from his tight grip, an official said.

After the attack, the intruder escaped from Khan's flat, and hid in the garden of the building for around two hours, the official said.

"The accused entered the actor's flat from the bathroom window with the intention of theft. After he entered the house, the actor's staff spotted him and started arguing with him. Soon, Saif Ali Khan came there and sensing a threat, he held the accused tightly from the front," the official said.

"As the accused did not get time to move, he started stabbing the actor in his back to free himself from the latter's grip. As Khan was injured in the attack, the accused managed to break free from his grip," he said.

Later, Saif Ali Khan locked the main door of his flat assuming that the attacker was still inside. However, the accused managed to flee using the same route through which he had entered, the official said.

The police earlier said that the fingerprints of the accused have been found at the crime scene, including the bathroom window from where he entered and exited, the duct shaft and the ladder he used to enter from the duct.

Fakir, a native of Jhalokathi district in Bangladesh, had been residing in Mumbai for over five months, working odd jobs and associated with a housekeeping agency, they said.

The police on Tuesday recreated the crime scene with the help of the accused, an official said.

A team of 20 officials reached the Satguru Sharan building in four police vans around 5.30 am and were on the premises for an hour, the official said.

The police team entered the building through the front gate with the accused, and also took him to Bandra railway station, from where he had taken a train to Dadar, and to a place outside a garden where he had slept after the attack.

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has lauded Khan's bravery and is happy that his former co-star is safe.

"It's very nice that he is safe, it's good we are happy. The whole industry is very happy. And it was very brave of him, he protected his family," Akshay said at the press conference of his new film "Sky Force" on Monday. (With PTI Inputs)