Mumbai: Despite the incident involving Saif Ali Khan raising a large number of questions, neither the Khans nor Lilavati Hospital nor the police are willing to provide the answers. It is as if they have collectively sworn each other to omerta, a code of silence.
The questions which remain unanswered are:
* The medico-legal report filed by the hospital's Dr Bhargavi Patil to the Bandra police says the attack on Saif took place around 2.30 a.m. on January 16 and that he was admitted to the hospital, which is just ten minutes away from his penthouse in Satguru Sharan building on St Theresa Road, only at 4.11 a.m.
The question that arises is what Saif was doing at home with as many as six stab wounds for more than hour and a half?
* The hospital said initially that one of the six wounds was caused by a 2.5" part of the knife lodging itself near the spinal cord. How could Saif have sat at home for so long with a sharp piece of metal near his spine with the spinal fluid and blood oozing?
* The auto rickshaw driver who had rushed Saif to the hospital said he actor was accompanied by a man and a child (presumably 7 yo Taimur, son of the actor). In fact, Saif had even thanked the driver for saving his life and given him Rs 11,000 as a token of appreciation. There is a vast variation in the timing of admission given by the driver and the hospital.
* Was Saif's actress wife Kareena at home when the stabbing took place? Initial reports said she had rushed down along with Saif when they heard a commotion on the lower floor. If she indeed was at home, how come she did not think it necessary to accompany her husband to the hospital
Ideally, any mother would have left her children in a situation like this in the custody of their nurses. But she did not do that. Kareena, who was reported to be partying before the attack, was not in a condition to accompany Saif to the hospital?
* The hospital administration said the surgical removal of a piece of the knife etc took almost six hours. It even showed a photograph of the knife piece that was reportedly removed. Dr Patil's report to the cops refers to the wounds as ``lacerations." Forensic experts say that lacerations can be caused only by blunt weapons and not a knife. So what is the truth?
* One of the staff nurses who was the first to confront the alleged intruder Shariful Islam was wielding a knife and also something like a wooden rod. Were the lacerations caused by this rod?
* Did Kareena try to rescue her husband under attack? If yes did she get injured like the staff nurse who was caring for her son Jeh?
Neither Saif nor Dr Niraj Uttamani, medical superintendent nor the police are willing to answer these and other questions. The question is why this silence? Is there something more to what has been told to the media so far?
