Hundreds of hrs of footage, 19 sets of prints

Fingerprints found in Khan's son Jehangir's bathroom, staircase and duct shaft; cops will check if prints match with those of arrested accused

- Manish Kumar Pathak

MUMBAI: A day after his arrest from the mangroves in Thane where he was found hiding, the police are trying to piece together a portrait of the man who launched a murderous attack on actor Saif Ali Khan early Wednesday morning.

Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammed Rohilla Amin Fakir, 30, is believed to be a Bangladeshi national who came to Mumbai in August last year. He did odd jobs at multiple places in the hospitality sector. A brief stint at a pub in Lower Parel, another stint at a restopub in Thane, one of the thousands who form the city's floating labour population. In the 15 days before he scaled the duct pipes of Satguru Sharan, a 12-storey luxury apartment building in the heart of Bandra, Shariful had had no work.

New revelations

On Monday, police disclosed that they had found 19 sets of fingerprints of the intruder from the actor's duplex apartment at Satguru Sharan, which have been sent to a forensic lab for a match. They also disclosed details of the 72-hour long cat-and-mouse game that eventually led them to the mangroves from where Shariful was arrested. The cops perused hundreds of hours of CCTV footage from across the city even prior to the attack to map his movements. The first real breakthrough came when Shariful was spotted on a CCTV camera in DN Nagar, Andheri West, on January 9, riding pillion on a motorcycle. The registration number of the bike led the police to a Thane-based labour contractor, Amit Pandey.

The police tracked down Pandey who told them that not only did he know Shariful but also the fact that he was a Bangladeshi.