I can't seem to find a fix for the "ValueError: Unknown subheader signature" raised while reading sas file using pd.read_sas?

Question

I am trying to load a sasbdat file in python using pd.read_sas() and I fail to load the data due to the below error.

ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-148-64f915da8256> in <module>
----> 1 df_sas = pd.read_sas('input_sasfile.sas7bdat', format='sas7bdat')

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sasreader.py in read_sas(filepath_or_buffer, format, index, encoding, chunksize, iterator)
    121 
    122         reader = SAS7BDATReader(
--> 123             filepath_or_buffer, index=index, encoding=encoding, chunksize=chunksize
    124         )
    125     else:

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sas7bdat.py in __init__(self, path_or_buf, index, convert_dates, blank_missing, chunksize, encoding, convert_text, convert_header_text)
    144 
    145         self._get_properties()
--> 146         self._parse_metadata()
    147 
    148     def column_data_lengths(self):

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sas7bdat.py in _parse_metadata(self)
    349                 self.close()
    350                 raise ValueError("Failed to read a meta data page from the SAS file.")
--> 351             done = self._process_page_meta()
    352 
    353     def _process_page_meta(self):

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sas7bdat.py in _process_page_meta(self)
    355         pt = [const.page_meta_type, const.page_amd_type] + const.page_mix_types
    356         if self._current_page_type in pt:
--> 357             self._process_page_metadata()
    358         is_data_page = self._current_page_type & const.page_data_type
    359         is_mix_page = self._current_page_type in const.page_mix_types

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sas7bdat.py in _process_page_metadata(self)
    388             subheader_signature = self._read_subheader_signature(pointer.offset)
    389             subheader_index = self._get_subheader_index(
--> 390                 subheader_signature, pointer.compression, pointer.ptype
    391             )
    392             self._process_subheader(subheader_index, pointer)

~\.conda\envs\overloaded-new\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sas\sas7bdat.py in _get_subheader_index(self, signature, compression, ptype)
    401             else:
    402                 self.close()
--> 403                 raise ValueError("Unknown subheader signature")
    404         return index
    405 

ValueError: Unknown subheader signature

Though I found relevant github issue (https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/24794), but it was closed because the issue got resolved by updating the pandas.

Any help is greatly appreciated.