AUSTRALIA-ATTACK 2

It was a second time in as many days that an Indian
cab driver was targeted in the same town. Another 24-year-old
Indian taxi-driver Satheesh Thatipamula was abused and
assaulted by a passenger and his vehicle damaged in an assault
on Thursday.
Paul John Brogden, 48-year-old local man was arrested,
jailed for three months and fined 1500 Australian dollars by a
judge, hours after he pleaded guilty of holding out a threat
to kill the driver.
Repeated assaults on the Indians have inflamed
diplomatic tensions between India and Australia.
This was the latest amid a string of attacks on
Indians in Australia, mostly in Melbourne, with 21-year-old
student Nitin Garg, who was stabbed to death by unidentified
assailants here, becoming the first victim of such assaults
this year.
Another Indian youth, Ranjodh Singh, was killed in New
South Wales last month. Nearly 100 cases of attacks on Indians
were reported in Australia in 2009 as against 17 incidents of
assaults in 2008. (MORE) PTI