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CANBERRA - AUSTRALIAN police angrily criticised on Friday a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that depicted them as racist Ku Klux Klan members following the fatal stabbing of an Indian student.
A cartoon in the Delhi Mail Today newspaper portrayed a person in a white Ku Klux Klan hood and wearing a Victoria state police badge against a black background and the words:'We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.'
Accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death last Saturday night on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne.
'To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong,' said Mr Greg Davies, secretary of the Victoria Police Association, the police officers' union. The killing followed a series of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney in 2009, drawing diplomatic protests and travel warnings from New Delhi.
Indian media have labelled the attacks against Indian students in Australia as racist, but police and the government have insisted the attacks are purely criminal.
'The identity of the offender from the homicide in Footscray isn't even known at this stage, so we don't even know what nationality the offender is. To say it's a race-based crime is not only premature, but stupid,' Mr Davies told Australian radio in criticisms backed by Victoria Police Minister Bob Cameron. -- REUTERS
A cartoon in the Delhi Mail Today newspaper portrayed a person in a white Ku Klux Klan hood and wearing a Victoria state police badge against a black background and the words:'We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.'
Accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death last Saturday night on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne.
'To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong,' said Mr Greg Davies, secretary of the Victoria Police Association, the police officers' union. The killing followed a series of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney in 2009, drawing diplomatic protests and travel warnings from New Delhi.
Indian media have labelled the attacks against Indian students in Australia as racist, but police and the government have insisted the attacks are purely criminal.
'The identity of the offender from the homicide in Footscray isn't even known at this stage, so we don't even know what nationality the offender is. To say it's a race-based crime is not only premature, but stupid,' Mr Davies told Australian radio in criticisms backed by Victoria Police Minister Bob Cameron. -- REUTERS
