The trial in the January 2025 attack on Saif Ali Khan began with the family’s staff nurse identifying Mohammed Shariful as the intruder.

Woken by a sound around 2 am, the nurse saw the bathroom light on and assumed it was actor Kareena Kapoor Khan. When she woke again, sensing something was wrong, she saw the shadow of a man in a cap moving towards the bed of Kareena and Saif Ali Khan’s youngest son , Jeh. When she tried to pick the child up, the man attacked her with a hexa blade. He wanted money, “Rs 1 crore”, he told her.

That was her account to police of a failed robbery attempt on the night of January 15-16, 2025. On Friday, as the trial in the case began, the 59-year-old staff nurse, the complainant and first witness, identified 31-year-old Mohammed Shariful in court as the intruder who entered Khan’s Bandra home during a failed robbery.

The court rejected Shariful’s second attempt to plead guilty and began the trial with her deposition.…