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.

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.

Dr Nitin Dange of Lilavati Hospital, where Khan is being treated, said that when the actor arrived, he was bleeding from his spine with a knife fragment embedded. The fragment was surgically removed, and fluid leakage was controlled. Doctors said that timely treatment prevented severe spinal damage.