India, July 24 -- The Vasai police in Mumbai have arrested four men for allegedly trying to kidnap three school girls on their way home from school on Tuesday afternoon. The attempt was foiled as the girls acted quickly and alerted locals who assaulted the suspects and handed them over to the Vasai police .

According to the police, the incident took place around noon in Papadi, Vasai, when three of the men, dressed as transgenders, stopped the girls near under the pretext of asking for their address.

The girls grew suspicious and one of them, who lived close by, ran to inform her father, who immediately rushed to the spot with a friend and gathered other locals. Together they caught the accused as they were trying to flee, and beat them...