vIndianz.com (Jan 23, 2010) — Brisbane: A 20-year-old man and a teenager were charged with assault Saturday for attacking and robbing an Indian here Thursday night.
The 25-year-old victim was using a telephone box in Macgregor, in Brisbane’s south, at 10.40pm on Thursday when he was set upon and punched to the side of the head and robbed of his wallet and cigarettes.
Police have charged two people with violence while in company over the incident, Australian news agency Australian Associated Press reported on Saturday.
The 15-year-old boy would be dealt with under the Juvenile Justice Act.
Two Indians were viciously attacked in Brisbane Thursday night and early Friday morning. Police said that attacks were not linked and weren’t racially motivated. The second person to be attacked that night was an Indian taxi driver.
There has been a string of attacks on Indians in Australia with taxi drivers being targeted in some recent incidents.
The spate of attacks on Indians in Australia has caused an outcry backhome.
Two – Ranjodh Singh’s body was found on Dec 29, while that of Nitin Garg, was fatally stabbed in Melbourne on Jan 2 – of the vicious attacks proved fatal.
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