India, June 21 -- Police on Saturday detained a 16-year-old boy from Khoda for allegedly attempting to rape a 17-year-old girl, causing her to fall off her first-floor house during the act and leading to injuries, police said.

According to officials, the boy lives with his family on the second floor of the same building and they both attend the same school in Delhi. The boy studies in class 8 while the girl is a class 9 student.

Abhishek Srivastava, assistant commissioner of police (ACP) of the Indirapuram circle, told HT: "The girl's family claimed they found her lying injured on the ground floor around 1.30am on Saturday. The girl allegedly told her family that the boy tried to rape her and pushed her in the process, after which she f...