Mumbai, Jan 22, 2025, IANS

Mumbai, Jan 22 (IANS) The Mumbai Police have recovered a piece of cloth from actor Safi Ali Khan's apartment which belongs to accused Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad, the Bangladeshi national arrested in the attack case. Sources said the Bandra police recovered cloth from Khan's house, which the accused used to cover his face. The cloth fell from his face in Saif's son Jahangir's room during the scuffle The cloth can be seen in the CCTV footage when Shehzad is climbing up the stairs before committing the crime. The police have sent the cloth and hair samples for DNA testing to the forensic department. Earlier, the officials said that Shehzad had entered the actor's building, Satguru Sharan, in the Bandra area by scaling its compound wall and found the security guards sleeping. Sources said that both the security guards in the building were sleeping when the attacker entered it by crossing over the boundary wall. The sources further said that as Shehzad found both the security guards sleeping, he entered the building from the main entrance where no CCTV camera exists. The accused removed his shoes and kept them in his bag to avoid making any noise. He also switched off his phone. The police on Tuesday recreated the crime scene with the accused at the building. Police took the accused wherever he went after fleeing from Saif Ali Khan's house. Shehzad was taken to the garden near the Satguru Sharan building and then to the National College Bus Stop where he was said to have stopped and stayed for a while after committing the crime. During the probe, the police took Shehzad to the Bandra Railway Station from where he had fled. Police are trying to find out how he reached the station. The police were trying to record the chain of events starting from Shehzad's entry to the building to his fleeing before being arrested. Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times by Shehzad inside his apartment in the early hours of January 16. The actor underwent emergency surgery at the Lilavati Hospital and was discharged on Tuesday. Three days after the attack, the police arrested the accused from neighbouring Thane city. A court in Mumbai on Sunday remanded the accused in five-day police custody. Shehzad, a native of Jhalokathi district in Bangladesh was residing in Mumbai for over five months. He had been working odd jobs and was associated with a housekeeping agency, the police have said.