Mumbai: A man has been detained in Chhattisgarh in connection with the stabbing incident involving actor Saif Ali Khan at his Mumbai residence.

Khan, 54, a popular Bollywood star, was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder during a robbery attempt at his 12th floor residence in Mumbai's Bandra area early Thursday morning.

The detained individual has been identified as 31-year-old Aakash Kailash Kannojia, who was apprehended at the Durg railway station in Chhattisgarh.

The suspect was traveling by a Mumbai-Howrah train and held at Durg in the afternoon, the RPF official said.

Mumbai Police were informed about the development and their team will reach here by late evening, he added. The actor is recovering from his injuries, as per the doctors treating him. 

Earlier on Friday, a carpenter had been held as he resembled the screengrab of the suspected assailant from the CCTV footage at the actor's building, but he was released later as he was found to have no link to the crime.

Saif Ali Khan, 54, grievously injured in the attack in the wee hours of Thursday, was recovering well at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital and could be discharged in two-three days, according to the doctors.

Mumbai Police, who had formed 30 teams to nab the assailant and recovered CCTV footage showing a suspect's face, informed RPF at Durg around 12.30 pm on Saturday that a suspect was travelling by the Jnaneswari Express.

RPF Durg alerted its counterpart at Rajnandgaon station (which comes before Durg on Mumbai-Howrah route) but the suspect could not be located when the train halted there, an RPF official said. He was found in the front general compartment at Durg station.

He was made to talk to police officials in Mumbai through video call. He was presently kept at RPF Post Durg, and a Mumbai police team would be reaching Chhattisgarh soon, officials said.