Mumbai police, earlier in the day, informed that it had arrested a 30-year-old man from Thane near the metropolis in the case.

Akash Kanojia was detained while he was traveling by the Jnaneshwari Express which runs between Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) to Kolkata Shalimar.

Saif Ali Khan was stabbed by the intruder multiple times during the incident early Thursday morning inside his 12th-floor apartment at the 'Satguru Sharan' building in the upscale Bandra West area of Mumbai.

The RPF arrested a suspect at Chattisgarh's Durg railway station in connection with the case. The suspected, identified as 31-years-old Aakash Kailash Kannojia was travelling on the Jnaneshwari Express from Mumbai LTT to Kolkata Shalimar.

Police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday detained a second person suspected of involvement in a knife attack in which Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was wounded. Khan, 54, was stabbed six times by an intruder during a burglary attempt at his home in Mumbai early on Thursday.

Suspect in Saif Ali Khan attack lingered near crime scene for hours, evaded police, later detained in Chhattisgarh while traveling ticketless.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) detained a suspect in the case of knife attack on actor Saif Ali Khan from a train at Durg railway station in Chhattisgarh on Saturday afternoon, an official said