A 30-year-old Bangladeshi national, who was arrested on Sunday on charges of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan after breaking into his house, has reportedly confessed to the crime, saying "haan, maine hi kiya hai (yes, I did it)".
According to police sources, Mohammad Shariful Islam Shehzad was arrested from near Hiranandani Estate in Kasarvadavali in Thane, about 35 kilometres from Mr Khan's house in Mumbai's Bandra area. The breakthrough came after over 70 hours of an intense manhunt that was launched following the attack during a failed burglary bid in the early hours of Thursday.
After being caught, when a senior officer asked Shehzad if he was the one who had attacked Mr Khan, the accused said "haan, maine hi kiya hai", a source said.
The police traced Shehzad to a labour camp in a forested area based on the information provided by a labour contractor.
Multiple teams of the police and the crime branch worked on several inputs and analysed footage from several CCTV cameras to track down Khan's attacker.
On Friday, a carpenter was held as he resembled the screengrab of the suspect from the CCTV footage at the actor's building, but he was released later as he was found to have no link to the crime. A day later, a suspect was detained in Chhattisgarh's Durg railway station but was released on Sunday. (NDTV)
