A Social media influencer has come forward to help a man who claimed his life was “ruined” after he was detained and then released in connection with the knife attack on film star Saif Ali Khan. Saif Ali Khan, 54, was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder during a robbery attempt at his 12th floor residence in Satguru Sharan in Mumbai’s Bandra area in the early hours of January 16. He underwent surgery and was later discharged.

Akash Kanojia, 31, a driver, was detained from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Kolkata Shalimar Jnaneshwari Express at Durg station in Chhattisgarh by the Railway Protection Force on January 18 after a tip-off from Mumbai police. On the morning of January 19, Mumbai police arrested Bangladeshi national Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir alias Vijay Das from neighbouring Thane, after which the Durg RPF allowed Kanojia to go leave.