Hyderabad, June 28 -- Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar commended the effrots of a couple for being vigilant and taking prompt action to prevent sexual assault on a seven year old minor girl under the Borabanda Police Station's limits on Thursday, June 25.

On Saturday, June 27, Sajjanar felicitated the couple at his office in Basheerbagh by presenting them shawls and cash rewards as a mark of respect for their efforts to save the girl child from a sexual predator.

A rickshaw driver named Mohammed Shamsuddin (60) had lured a minor girl playing outside her house in Borabanda by promising her Rs 20 on June 25. He got her onto his rickshaw, and took her away. He took her to a deserted area and attempted to sexually assault her.

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