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MUMBAI/RAIPUR: The man suspected of attacking actor Saif Ali Khan in his Bandra home remained near the crime scene for six hours after the incident, and yet he slipped past the police.

- Yogesh Naik

MUMBAI/RAIPUR: The man suspected of attacking actor Saif Ali Khan in his Bandra home remained near the crime scene for six hours after the incident, and yet he slipped past the police. He even spent a few hours resting before boarding a local train to Dadar, investigations reveal.

Police are studying CCTV footage to establish the trail left by the assailant after he left Saif's home, Satguru Sharan building, via the fire escape, at 2.30 am on Thursday. Using a screen grab from a camera inside the fire escape, they identified the suspected intruder near National College, on Linking Road, barely 300 metres from Saif's apartment building, at around 7.00 am. "He walked from the actor's home and took St Theresa's Road and then 32nd Road before reaching Linking Road," a police officer said.

Police suspect the assailant stopped somewhere to change his clothes and get some rest after he attacked the actor. Next, he was seen on CCTV footage at Bandra railway station at 8.24 am, after which he boarded a Churchgate-bound train at 8.36 am. The suspect alighted at Dadar station at 8.45 am, police said, from where he was captured on CCTV purchasing headphones from a small shop in Dadar West at 9.00 am. "He visited Ikara Mobile Shop and purchased a wired headphone for ₹50," said the police officer.