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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Just a week after the murder of Indian graduate student Nitin Garg in a Melbourne suburb, a 29-year-old Indian man was set ablaze on early Saturday morning in the same city.
The culprits are believed to be four unidentified people who attacked Jaspreet Singh who had just dropped his wife home and was in the process of parking his car.
He is reported to have suffered 20 per cent burns after the attackers doused him with a flammable fluid and set him alight. As in the case of Nitin Garg, the city police have said it was “highly unlikely” the attack was racially motivated.
The attack has once again outraged people in India even as relatives and friends of Nitin Garg were receiving his mortal remains that had been flown in from Melbourne.
Garg was fatally stabbed to death one week ago while he was on his way to a part-time evening job in a restaurant.
In New Delhi, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi has expressed disappointment. “The government there is acting after the incident. I want to say loudly: take preventive action on anti-social elements. There is so much resentment among Indians and in the media,” he told the media as reported by the Press Trust of India.
A couple of days ago, a cartoon in a newspaper showing an Australian policeman as a member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan had been widely rejected as being an over reaction by most Australian official channel and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard had condemned it as being “deeply offensive”.
The Ministry of External Affairs subsequently advised the media to exercise restraint in reporting on the issue as it could affect ties with Australia.
The latest incident is expected to further affect the already strained relations between the two countries and will further go toward jeopardizing Australia's efforts to garner students from India.
About 70,000 students from India are believed to be in Australia but there has been a steep decline in new enrollments after the string of violent incidents against Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney over the past one year.
Just a week after the murder of Indian graduate student Nitin Garg in a Melbourne suburb, a 29-year-old Indian man was set ablaze on early Saturday morning in the same city. The culprits are believed to be four unidentified people who attacked Jaspreet Singh who had just dropped his wife home...
Just a week after the murder of Indian graduate student Nitin Garg in a Melbourne suburb, a 29-year-old Indian man was set ablaze on early Saturday morning in the same city.
The culprits are believed to be four unidentified people who attacked Jaspreet Singh who had just dropped his wife home and was in the process of parking his car.
He is reported to have suffered 20 per cent burns after the attackers doused him with a flammable fluid and set him alight. As in the case of Nitin Garg, the city police have said it was “highly unlikely” the attack was racially motivated.
The attack has once again outraged people in India even as relatives and friends of Nitin Garg were receiving his mortal remains that had been flown in from Melbourne.
Garg was fatally stabbed to death one week ago while he was on his way to a part-time evening job in a restaurant.
In New Delhi, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi has expressed disappointment. “The government there is acting after the incident. I want to say loudly: take preventive action on anti-social elements. There is so much resentment among Indians and in the media,” he told the media as reported by the Press Trust of India.
A couple of days ago, a cartoon in a newspaper showing an Australian policeman as a member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan had been widely rejected as being an over reaction by most Australian official channel and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard had condemned it as being “deeply offensive”.
The Ministry of External Affairs subsequently advised the media to exercise restraint in reporting on the issue as it could affect ties with Australia.
The latest incident is expected to further affect the already strained relations between the two countries and will further go toward jeopardizing Australia's efforts to garner students from India.
About 70,000 students from India are believed to be in Australia but there has been a steep decline in new enrollments after the string of violent incidents against Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney over the past one year.
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