Hyderabad: Police felicitate 6 persons who saved girl from jilted lover

The police came to know that the attacker was allegedly stalking the victim because she had spurned his advances

Hyderabad: Six good Samaritans, who decided not be mere onlookers but intervened and save a woman who was under attack by a jilted lover at S. R Nagar on Monday, were felicitated by the police on Tuesday.

The six persons including Mujeeb, Shanker, Maruthi, Naik, Azhar and Akash were passing-by on the Borabanda main road when they noticed one person Kishore Kumar was attacking a woman whom he knew, with a knife. The police later came to know that the attacker was allegedly stalking the victim because she had spurned his advances.

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“Due to the timely intervention of Mujeeb and others, Kishore dropped his knife and in a hurry left the woman. She was shifted to a hospital for treatment and was discharged on Tuesday,” S. R Nagar Inspector, K Saidulu, said.

Kishore was later arrested by the police and remanded to judicial custody.