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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Twenty-one year old Nitin Garg is the latest victim in the ongoing spate of violence against Indian students in Australia. Garg was stabbed near the fast food outlet that he worked part time in on the night of January 2.
He was reportedly walking through a park on his way to work at Hungry Jack's, when he was stabbed by some unidentified people. Reports said Garg, a trained accountant, managed to walk some 300 metres to the place of his work and was then rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he died a short while later.
The Indian government's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has condemned the incident and asked the Australian authorities to bring the guilty to book at the earliest.
A Federation of Indian Students spokesman Gautam Gupta has said race was a clear factor in the attack.
"Nothing was stolen. The wallet was there, mobile phone was there, so there's no other motivation other than race," he told AAP.
The attacks continue despite assurances from the federal and state governments in Australia that measures had been in put in place to stop them following the spate of attacks throughout last year in Sydney and Melbourne.
The attack comes after a series of violent incidents against Indians in Melbourne and Sydney in 2008.
The violence had resulted in a number of protests and was widely covered by the world media India potentially jeopardising Australia's $15.5 billion education export business. Close to 100,000 Indian students study in Australia.
Twenty-one year old Nitin Garg is the latest victim in the ongoing spate of violence against Indian students in Australia. Garg was stabbed near the fast food outlet that he worked part time in on the night of January 2. He was reportedly walking through a park on his way to work at Hungry...
Twenty-one year old Nitin Garg is the latest victim in the ongoing spate of violence against Indian students in Australia. Garg was stabbed near the fast food outlet that he worked part time in on the night of January 2.
He was reportedly walking through a park on his way to work at Hungry Jack's, when he was stabbed by some unidentified people. Reports said Garg, a trained accountant, managed to walk some 300 metres to the place of his work and was then rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he died a short while later.
The Indian government's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has condemned the incident and asked the Australian authorities to bring the guilty to book at the earliest.
A Federation of Indian Students spokesman Gautam Gupta has said race was a clear factor in the attack.
"Nothing was stolen. The wallet was there, mobile phone was there, so there's no other motivation other than race," he told AAP.
The attacks continue despite assurances from the federal and state governments in Australia that measures had been in put in place to stop them following the spate of attacks throughout last year in Sydney and Melbourne.
The attack comes after a series of violent incidents against Indians in Melbourne and Sydney in 2008.
The violence had resulted in a number of protests and was widely covered by the world media India potentially jeopardising Australia's $15.5 billion education export business. Close to 100,000 Indian students study in Australia.
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