Comment: An opportunistic attack? Yes, definite! The Australian Government and the police should upgrade their services and surveillances – in an effort to curb further unwanted chaos, disturbance, and crime attacks on Indians and other races in Australia. Its vital for the economic prosperity and social stability in Australia
The Police in Australia dress like boy-scouts, their uniforms are most of the time not nicely iron, and they wear military boot. The reason herein is that its easier to chase bad guys. But police in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Malaysia, don’t dress without a properly iron dress, they dress smartly, and wear proper professional shoes – and they catch ‘bad guys’ pretty effective too! So its time, the Australia Police Force buckle up get reformed… Don’t think that big cases are important, and forget the small cases, because it’s the small cases that spiral up to big cases!! Got it man! Maybe the Chief of Police should be replaced!! Get a younger more effective university graduated for that matter, and make sure he is not racist!
URLhttp://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/6660657/indian-govt-angry-after-attack-on-man/ (10th January 2010)
Indian govt angry after attack on man
AAP January 10, 2010, 11:42 am
The Indian government has criticised Australia for failing to prevent attacks on Indian nationals, after the latest incident in which a man was set on fire in Melbourne.
Crime squad investigators say the circumstances leading up to a 29-year-old Indian man, Jaspreet Singh, being set on fire in an alleged attack early on Saturday are "unusual" - but not racially motivated. The man is in hospital in a serious condition with burns to 15 per cent of his body on his hands, face and legs.
A hospital spokesman said he remained in a serious but stable condition on Sunday.
It's alleged he was randomly approached by four men who burned his car and set him on fire.
"I believe there's no reason at this stage to consider this in any way racially motivated," Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Neil Smyth told reporters on Saturday.
"The circumstances of parking a car randomly on a side street and just some people approaching him are a bit strange and it's highly unlikely, therefore, to be a targeted attack on any individual."
But India's Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, who is responsible for Indians working or studying abroad, reacted sharply on Saturday and rebuked Australia for failing to prevent such attacks. "I want to make it loudly clear that the (Australian) government should take preventive action," he said on the sidelines of a conference in Delhi.
"Why cannot they arrest them and put them behind bars and prosecute them? Surely, the Australian police must be efficient enough to mark these people." (Thats why a reform in the Police Force is needed!! Sack the Police Chief and get a more qualified one!!)
"Our government expresses serious concerns and is waiting for results," the minister added.
Police were told the man and his wife left a dinner party in Essendon between 1.30am and 2am on Saturday and drove to their nearby home in Grice Crescent. The man told police he dropped his wife off and then drove to a nearby street to park the car. As he was getting out of the vehicle, four men allegedly attacked him, pushed him back against the vehicle and poured an unknown fluid on him. One of the men is alleged to have then ignited the fluid with a lighter before all four men fled. The man then ran from the car, throwing his burning clothes into the street. He suffered burns to 15 per cent of his body.
The attackers have been described in only a "generalised description which is really just unspecific, just four males", Det Act Snr Sgt Smyth said. "It is an unusual event," he said.
The incident threatens to further fracture relations between Australia and India, which are already strained following a spate of attacks on Indian students.
Meanwhile, Slain Indian student Nitin Garg (an accounting student) will be farewelled in a funeral service on Sunday after his body was flown home to his family. Hundreds of mourners are expected to pay their respects to Mr Garg, whose body will be cremated near his family's home in the northern state of Punjab. Mr Garg, 21, died after he was stabbed in Melbourne's western suburbs last weekend while walking through a park to his workplace at Hungry Jack's late at night.
