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| February 4, 2010 | | Attacks on Indians in Victoria: Police says will look at larger issue | | Melbourne: Police in the Australian state of Victoria have said that while they are aware of the so-called 'racially-motivated' attacks on Indians, they would be 'looking
at the bigger issue.' The Herald Sun quoted Victoria's Chief Commissioner of Police,
Simon Overland, as saying he was "aware of Indians being over represented as victims
of crime." Chief Commissioner Overland's views come as a war of words has broken
out between Australia's Indian community and the Victorian Government. Victoria
Premier John Brumby has lashed out at the way the Indian media and Indian Government
had overreacted to claims of racist violence. Brumby has called for more balance
after an Indian man living in Melbourne was charged with making false claims over
burn injuries. Jaspreet Singh, 29, was charged with making a false report to authorities
and seeking criminal damage through the insurance route for financial gain. Brumby
said the Indian media's reports of such incidents had been unbalanced. "I think
I'll make a couple of comments and in a sense they go, as much as anything, to
the way the Indian media and, to a lesser extent, some representatives in the
Indian Government, portray these events," he said. On the murder of Indian-born
taxi driver Ranjodh Singh, he said: "The people who have been charged with that
murder are Indians." "So, I hope there is some balance to the debate, some balance
to the reporting in India and certainly to date that balance hasn't been there,"
he added. Spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students in Australia, Gautam
Gupta, said Brumby's attacks did not help the situation. |
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