Hyderabad:
A youth slashed the throat of a 14-year-old girl after she resisted his sexual assault in Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district in the early hours today, police said.
The incident occurred at Madnur village under Kothapatnam mandal at around 3 am when one Ram Kotaiah entered his neighbour's house where the Victim, a class ninth student, was sleeping and attempted to molest her.
But the girl raised an alarm and resisted his attempts to sexually assault her, they
said.
"As the girl identified the assailant, he allegedly slit her throat with a knife before fleeing from the scene," a police officer said.
The girl has been admitted to a hospital in Ongole town where she was operated with seven stitches on her neck and her condition is out of danger, the officer added.
Kothapatnam police have registered a case of attempt to murder and other relevant sections of the IPC and launched a search to nab Ram Kotaiah.