A drunk 23-year-old, who dragged a 14-year-old girl to a building in an attempt to rape her, was found by the police fast asleep in the exact spot after the girl filed a complaint against him. The 14-year-old girl, who lives in Ghatkopar East, had gone with her mother to the market on Wednesday evening. Finding the market place too crowded, the girl told her mother that she was going home. En route home, the girl was intercepted by Salim Sheikh alias Babu.

"Babu asked the girl where she was going. When she replied that she was on her way home, he told her that her father had called her to a different place," said an officer from Pant Nagar Police station. The girl went with Babu, who took her to an abandoned building nearby. When the girl realised something was wrong, she tried to run away. But, Babu got hold of the girl and dragged her to the seventh floor of the building. Babu, who was carrying a bottle of beer with him, tried to force the girl to drink some.