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Kanojia stated that issues have been going clean for his household after a very long time however his detention has modified all the pieces.
Kanojia was detained from Durg railway station whereas he was on his again to his native place in Chhattisgarh. (ANI photograph)
The sooner detention of a Colaba resident in reference to the assault on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has resulted in him shedding his job and cancellation of his marriage, in accordance with a report in Hindustan Instances. The 31-year-old Mumbai resident, recognized as Akash Kailash Kanojia, was detained on January 18, two days after a horrifying assault on the actor at his Bandra residence.
Kanojia was detained from Durg railway station whereas he was on his approach again to his native place, Nehla, in Chhattisgarh from Mumbai.
The Colaba resident advised Hindustan Instances that he was travelling to Bilaspur by way of Jnaneswar Specific on January 17 to satisfy his ailing grandmother and potential bride when he was detained by railway safety pressure (RPF) officers on the station.
This occurred after an misguided alert by Mumbai police to RPF, claiming that Kanojia was the particular person behind the foiled theft try at actor’s Mumbai residence.
Sharing the ordeal, the 31-year-old stated that quickly after he was nabbed, his pictures have been circulated extensively on TV channels and media shops which led him to shedding his job in addition to struggling a setback in private life because the bride’s household refused to satisfy him.
“The RPF personnel not solely apprehended me, additionally they issued a press launch with my {photograph}, which was proven extensively by tv channels and media shops. Because of this, the bride’s household cancelled the assembly with me and my employer terminated my companies,” Hindustan Instances quoted Kanojia as saying.
Kanojia labored as a driver for a tour firm which works with Western Railway in Mumbai. On January 17, he obtained a name from Mumbai police, which requested him about his whereabouts. When he advised the officer that he was at residence, the latter disconnected the decision, he advised Hindustan Instances.
“The following day, I boarded Jnaneswari Specific from Mumbai hoping to go to my ailing grandmother in our native place Nehla in Chhattisgarh. I used to be supposed to alter trains in Bilaspur to go to Nehla and was slated to satisfy the household of my potential bride later,” he advised HT.
On January 18, when the prepare reached Durg junction at round 10am, RPF personnel detained him, suspecting him to be Saif’s attacker and took him to Raipur. The Mumbai police workforce reached there virtually 12 hours later and advised him that he can be introduced again to the town the next day for additional probe.
He advised police that he had nothing to do with the assault however they didn’t take heed to him.
“I advised the police that I had nothing to do with the assault on Saif Ali Khan and provided to make them converse with my family members. I additionally advised them that they might verify footage from CCTVs put in close to my home to make clear their doubts. However they didn’t pay any heed – as a substitute, they took my pictures and circulated them within the media, claiming I used to be the attacker,” stated Kanojia.
Nevertheless, the identical day, police arrested Shariful Islam Shehzad, an alleged Bangladeshi nationwide, from Thane, claiming him to be the true attacker.
The following morning on Jan 19, Kanojia was launched however he requested them to take him again to Mumbai as he feared that they may observe his path and query him in entrance of his relations and family members. However his plea was turned down.
“Once I spoke to my mom (in Mumbai) after being launched, she appeared very fearful as my photograph had been proven on all information channels and requested me to return residence instantly. The following day, once I known as my employer, he requested me to cease reporting for work, saying, ‘You’re in authorized hassle and I don’t need to get into hassle due to you’. I attempted explaining the matter to him however he wasn’t keen to listen to me out,” stated Kanojia.
Within the meantime, he obtained a name from his grandmother, who advised him that the household of his potential bride had refused to go forward with the wedding proposal after all the episode.
“After what has occurred, I’m not positive if I can get married in future,” he stated.
He rued that issues have been going clean for his household after a very long time, however his detention has modified all the pieces.
“My brother died a while again after extended medical remedy, for which we needed to promote no matter we had, together with our home in Virar. My father’s storage in Colaba was additionally shut down after any individual cheated him of ₹9 lakh and fled the nation,” stated Kanojia, who’s an accused in a drug-related case and a theft case. “I hope the courts will finally clear me of all the fees,” he stated.
After all of the chaos, Kanojia desires all his pictures, figuring out him because the attacker, be taken down from the web. He has additionally approached a lawyer for a similar, although he can hardly afford any bills.
“The police failed to note a easy factor – that I’ve moustache, whereas the particular person captured in CCTV cameras put in in Saif Ali Khan’s constructing didn’t have one. But. I needed to undergo this ordeal,” he advised HT.