The 30-year-old Bangladeshi national Shariful Islam Shehzad, who attacked actor Saif Ali Khan at his Bandra residence in January, had been closely monitoring the police investigation through his internet-enabled smartphone where he watched multiple news channels on YouTube while he was on the run from Mumbai to Thane to evade his arrest, claims the charge sheet.

The tech-savvy Shariful, who had already reached a labour camp in Thane’s Hirnandani area after dodging Mumbai police, had switched off his mobile phone, but his curiosity to know the police investigation was so high that he would switch on the device to live stream news channels for the update. But he would only go to nearby jungle to switch on his cellphone so that his exact mobile tower location could not be traced by the large team of Mumbai police desperately working on the case to solve it.