A courageous four-year-old girl managed to free herself from the clutches of a 35-year-old man who was trying to rape her in DN Nagar in Andheri late Sunday night.

The accused, identified as Akmal Ahmed, an employee at a garment shop, was nabbed by the locals and given a thrashing before being handed over to the police. The cops booked him on the charge of molestation and under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. He has been remanded in police custody. u00a0This is the second incident in two days in Andheri where a minor was rescued from a rapist in the nick of time.