section_path: Military campaigns/Expansion into Central India/Assassination attempt
section_name: Assassination attempt
paragraph_text: Assassination attempt
  
  In January 1564, an assassin shot an arrow at Akbar, which pierced his right shoulder, as he was returning from a visit to the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin near Delhi. The Emperor ordered the apprehended assassin, a slave of Mirza Sharfuddin—a noble in Akbar's court whose recent rebellion had been suppressed—to be beheaded.