Actor Saif Ali Khan, 54, will be shifted to the special suite of Lilavati Hospital, Bandra West, on Friday and may get discharged on or before Monday. The actor had to be shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital after he underwent a four-hour-long (5 am to 9 am) supra-major surgical intervention for multiple stab wounds. The actor was stabbed six times by an intruder who had barged into his house in the wee hours (around 2.30 am) of Thursday and was rushed to Lilavati Hospital by his caretaker.

Dr Nitin Dange, consultant neurosurgeon, who operated on the actor's spinal wound, said, “The actor had sustained a major injury to the thoracic spine due to the broken piece of knife that was lodged. The surgery was done to remove the piece and also fix the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) leakage. Luckily, it was a dural spinal injury (the outermost layer of tissue that covers the spinal cord) and did not impact the spinal cord. The actor is responding well to the treatment and we have kept him in the ICU for observation. He will be moved out of ICU by tomorrow (Friday) and should be discharged on or before Monday.”