Indian-born reporter charges that her attacker was Indian

Melbourne, Jul 29 (PTI) An Indian undercover reporter
who was assaulted in Sydney during a sting operation while
exposing migration and education scams has blasted claims that
attack on her was racial, saying that the culprit who
assaulted her was a fellow Indian.

"I'm just very, very appalled with the Indian media
assuming that this was a racist attack," the 28-year-old
reporter with ABC network, who was not identified by the
channel, told 'The Australian' daily.

"I know it was not a racially motivated attack... It
was absolutely not. My attacker looked like an Indian person
and I was threatened in Hindi," she said.

The reporter, who had previously received two
threatening calls, was attacked in an inner-city Sydney street
on Saturday afternoon when a man wearing a turban came at her
with an "almighty elbow to the right shoulder".

The young reporter had gone undercover for ABC's Four
Corners programme during an investigation that aired on early
this week, exposing widespread corruption in the enrollment of
international student and migration sectors. PTI