Hyderabad, June 10 -- A 49-year-old man allegedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl and pushed her from the fourth floor of a residential apartment in Khammam town on June 6, leaving her with multiple fractures and serious injuries.

The accused, Mohammed Ghouse of Raparthi Nagar, is a driver who lived in the same building. The girl had travelled from Kothagudem to visit her grandfather, who works as a watchman at the apartment.

Her grandparents found her unconscious outside the building that night and rushed her to Mamata General Hospital in Khammam. Her family initially assumed she had fallen by accident. When the girl regained consciousness on Monday night, she told her parents that Ghouse had assaulted her and thrown her from the...