Police in India's financial capital of Mumbai have detained a key suspect in the knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, TV channels reported on Friday.

Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, known for his role in Netflix’s Sacred Games, among others, was stabbed in a scuffle with an intruder at his home early Thursday and underwent surgery at a hospital, media reports said.

Actor Saif Ali Khan sustained a serious injury to his spine while trying to protect his family from the intruder.

An assailant who stabbed Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan remains at large and nobody has yet been detained in the case, an Indian newspaper cited police as saying on Friday, contradicting earlier media reports that police were questioning a suspect.

Doctors say Saif Ali Khan is recovering well after being stabbed multiple times by a burglar who broke into his Mumbai home.

The police said Mr. Khan was recovering in the hospital after an intruder attacked him. He sustained a major injury to his spinal cord, a doctor said.

Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was out of danger, police said on Thursday, following stab injuries received in a scuffle with an intruder at his home in India’s financial capital of Mumbai for which he was undergoing surgery.

Popular Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has undergone surgery and is out of danger after he was stabbed by an intruder in his home overnight, his team has said. The attack took place early on Thursday morning in an upscale neighbourhood in the Indian city of Mumbai, where Khan lives with his family.

MUMBAI (Reuters) -Indian television channels said on Friday police in the financial capital of Mumbai had detained, and were questioning, a suspect in a late night stabbing attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan,

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have detained a man in connection with the knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, according to media reports Khan was stabbed during a scuffle at his residence with an unidentified man on Thursday morning.