The Bangladeshi national who has been arrested for stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan entered the actor's building on January 16 by scaling its compound wall, and found the security guards sleeping at that time, police said.
The intruder, Shariful Islam Shehzad alias Vijay Das (30), entered the building from the main entrance where no CCTV cameras were installed, a police official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
When he found that both the security guards in the building were sleeping, he entered it by crossing the boundary wall. Shehzad then removed his shoes and kept them in his bag to avoid any noise and also switched off his phone, the official said.
"During the probe, the police found that there are no CCTV cameras installed in the building's corridor. The investigation revealed that one of the two security guards was sleeping in the cabin and the other near the gate," he was quoted as saying.
The Mumbai Police recreated the crime scene at the actor's 12-storey residence in Bandra with the accused on Tuesday. The police spent about an hour inside the actor's residence, while trying to understand how the attacker, Shehzad, carried out the crime with the intention of committing a robbery.
