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ALWAR: A 70-year-old woman was brutally attacked after she resisted a rape attempt by a 21-year-old youth at Sammanpur village under Naugavan police station area in Alwar .

The woman is battling for life and is undergoing treatment at the Sawai Man Singh ( SMS ) Hospital after sustaining grave head injuries. Police have registered a case of attempt to rape and were waiting for the medical report of the woman to add attempt to murder case against the accused.

According to police, the woman was sleeping in her house during the intervening nights of Thursday and Friday. The accused, identified as Joginder Singh (22), who lives in the neighbourhood, was drinking liquor prior to his attack on the woman. "As per the complaint lodged by the family of the woman, the accused, who was in an inebriated state, entered the house and attempted rape.

