The Mumbai police arrested a suspect Friday morning in connection with the attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, an official said.
The identity of the man, taken to the Bandra police station, was yet to be established. He was detained after police questioned several people resembling the attacker, the official said.
The official said the man taken into custody at the Bandra police station was carrying a backpack similar to one seen in the CCTV footage from the actor's building.
Khan was repeatedly stabbed by an intruder in his highrise apartment in upscale Bandra early Thursday and rushed to hospital with the blade still lodged in his spine.
The 54-year-old, who suffered six stab injuries, including in his neck, was out of danger after an emergency surgery at the Lilavati Hospital where he was taken after the attack outside his younger son Jeh's room around 2.30 am.
CCTV footage showed the alleged assailant, wearing a red scarf and carrying a backpack, scurrying down the stairs from the sixth floor of the Satguru Sharan building where Khan lives.
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