Three Indians brutally attacked by 70 locals in Australia

15 Sep 2009 Melbourne
After a brief lull in attacks on Indians in Australia, three members of the community were "brutally bashed" by a group of around 70 youths, including women, who were attending a birthday party in a bar here after making racist remarks against the trio.

26-year-old Sukhdip Singh, who arrived here a month ago on a spouse visa, his brother Gurdeep Singh and uncle Mukhtair Singh were attacked by the group when they were playing pool in a bar in Epping suburb on Saturday.

"At around 11'o clock my brother-in-law Sukhdip was playing pool along with his family members when they were attacked by around 70 locals who were attending a party," the victim's relative Onkar Singh said.

"They were quietly playing and were trying to avoid trouble even after these locals were trying to provoke them by passing comments," he said.

The group started telling them to go back to their country. "When they reached the car park to leave the place a huge crowd attacked them and started bashing them brutally.

The attackers were in their teens and around twenties," he said.

When contacted, a Victoria Police spokesperson said that before the incident took place, a woman made a racist remark to a group of four males playing pool at Legends Bar.

"A short time later, the pool-playing group decided to leave the venue. It is believed they were followed into the car park by up to four males who were part of a larger group celebrating a birthday in the function room," the spokesperson said.

It has been alleged the Indians were set upon and seriously assaulted by a group of Australians. Police attended and arrested four males who were taken to Epping police station and interviewed in relation to assault and affray.

All the four have been released pending further investigations.

While police were on scene, they observed about 15 males and females, also from the larger group celebrating the birthday, made racist comments and one female from the group threw water on a bystander.

After police removed the victims from the scene, the larger group continued with their threatening behaviour and racist remarks.

However, Onkar claimed police have informed him that six of the 70 attackers have been arrested.

The attacks come a month after Australian Government assured External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, during his visit here, that Indian students will be protected. Around 30 Indian students were attacked in various cities from June to August.

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• Australia
• racist attack
• Indophobia

[preetpawar1]

To all who wana beat INDIAN people....if you guys ever come to India we will treat you as good as possible, bec we INDIANS dont hate anybody we dont knw how to hate people of other race we only knw how to LOVE and how to respect others...LONG LIVE INDIA

[udennyn]

@fuzzyman237 @dosh228 Hey bro..why are you commenting like this?There are good and bad people in every country and community..If you r unhappy with immigration then ask your govt to make changes and unwelcome immigrants from different countries..I am sorry for being Indian but everybody is not lucky enough to get birth in civilised country like you..

[fallyfresh7]

wtf... 70 people. australian news never showed anything like this

[alisha007able]

I'll fuck all these white pigs...................just come in my country then i'll show u the real curry taste u motherfucker

[preetpawar1]

@TheShiellsy i am sorry i dont wana hurt ur feelings by saying something about ur parents, dats why i del da comment, in anger we do the thing dat we dont want to do...but i dont knw how u read it, so from my heart i feel sorry for dat..may u forgive me for dat.

[TheShiellsy]

@preetpawar1 Your the one that wnated to argue. and by the way i know who my father is. and i know my mother wouldnt go near a stinky small dicked indian. now go and argue with someone you have a chance at bringing down.

[preetpawar1]

@TheShiellsy ok ok bro u win!!!! rest in peace..aussies r perfect ok!

their is a saying in india dat if ur wana win a argument wid a fool and by a chance u win dat argument then u are nothing but the king of fools...r.i.p...aussi aussi aussi ...he he he

[TheShiellsy]

@preetpawar1 sorry fuckstik. i dont read shit about cockroaches. your a perfect example of why indians get there heads kicked in here. they for some reason unknown think there better than everyone else. they shoot off there mouths and get beat up. then they cry like lil pussys. generally its asians lebbs and other indians kickin there arse here. most of the 1 on 1 fights here are actually done by aussies. COCKHEAD

[preetpawar1]

@TheShiellsy i dont think anybody in di world can handle 70 people alone...come 1 to 1 then we can see who is gona get black eye....u knw aussis r pussies dey never attack when they r alone..but there is example of the extream bravery of Indians if wana read just read the battle of saragarhi(1897) were 21 sikhs took stand against 10000 afgans...indians r the best bro

[TheShiellsy]

@preetpawar1 you indians do tend to be smart arses and get yourselfs into shit you cant handle dont you.

[TheShiellsy]

@preetpawar1 fact is. there wouldnt have been 70. he probably showed up to a party and said or did somthing stupid. and got a few bunches in the head. happens all the time. to aussies indians and everyone else. i dont know what the big fuss is about.