Mumbai (PTI): More than 30 hours have passed but the Mumbai police have yet to arrest the man who repeatedly stabbed actor Saif Ali Khan in his plush apartment in the city’s Bandra area, an official said on Friday.

The city police have formed 20 teams to track down and nab the intruder and are tapping their network of informers to locate him, officials have said.

The crime branch and the local police have gathered technical data, including how many mobile phones were active in the area when the actor was attacked during a “burglary attempt” in his apartment housed in ‘Satguru Sharan’ building, the police official said.

Evidence has been collected from Khan’s home and the building with the help of forensic teams and the dog squad and searches were conducted at many places in Mumbai to track down the attacker, he said.

The 54-year-old actor received six stab injuries, including in his neck, in the attack around 2.30 am on Thursday. He was out of danger following an emergency surgery at the Lilavati Hospital where he was rushed, according to doctors treating him. He continues to be in the hospital.

Police are examining the CCTV footage of the building showing the intruder, who was armed with a wooden stick and a long Hexa blade, fleeing after the attack.

The footage, captured at 2.33 am, clearly showed the young suspect’s face. He is seen wearing a brown T-shirt with a collar and a red scarf while scurrying down the stairs on the sixth floor of the building. The actor lives on the 12th floor.

Besides Khan, a 56-year-old staff nurse at the house, Eliyama Philip, who is the complainant, and a domestic help suffered blade injuries in the incident, said an official on Thursday.

The entire family - Khan, his wife and fellow star Kareena Kapoor, and their two sons, four-year-old Jeh and eight-year-old Taimur - were home in the 12th-floor apartment along with their five house helps. In a statement to the police, Jeh's nanny Philip, who first encountered the armed attacker, said he asked for Rs 1 crore.

The intruder did not force his entry or break into the actor's flat but possibly sneaked in at some point during the night with the intention of robbery, police officials said.

The man, she said, pointed a finger at her and warned her, "Koi awaaz nahin (don't make any noise).

Hearing her scream, Khan and Kareena rushed out of their room. The intruder, who Philip said was between 35-40 years old, then attacked Khan with a knife.

Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Friday that the two robbers who shot dead the two security guards and decamped with Rs 93 lakh cash meant for filling the SBI ATM in Bidar on January 16 have been identified.

He also said that efforts are on to secure them and police teams have gone to Indore in Madhya Pradesh and other possible places where the robbers could belong to.

"Both of them have been identified. They are being followed," Parameshwara told reporters. According to him, the assailants fled to Hyderabad after the crime.

The robbers fled the spot in a bike, carrying the cash filled trunk, he said.

SBI has assigned a Hyderabad-based firm to fill the ATMs, Parameshwara added.

"Usually gunmen accompany when such a huge amount of cash is transported. Unfortunately, yesterday there was no gunman in the vehicle," the Minister said.

He opined that the robbers must have monitored the cash transportation mechanism for a very long time and carried out the crime. The robbers shot dead two security guards, Giri Venkatesh and Shiva Kashinath, before decamping with the cash meant for filling the SBI ATM in the district headquarters town of Bidar on Thursday.

The deceased were the staff of CMS Agency, police said. The staff had come to the ATM located on the busy Shivaji Chowk to fill the cash at 11.30 am, they said. Sources said the robbers fired eight rounds.