PIL in SC against attacks

Enraged at the attacks on Indian students in Australia, lawyer DK Garg has filed a PIL before the Supreme Court drawing its attention to the apathy shown by the governments of India and Australia on the bloody attacks.

“The Supreme Court is the last resort since the Indian government has shown little concern for students who are in Australia for studies,” says Garg. The lawyer expects the court to send a notice to the Centre to explain in detail the steps it has taken to protect the interests of Indians studying in Australia and elsewhere in the world.

Secondly, the government must file an affidavit briefing the court on the current status of Indian students, their plight, cases, if any, registered by the Australian government and whether it has an exigency plan to deal with the situation that’s ‘going out of control’ every moment.

There are 93,000 Indian students in Australia. Australia’s international student sector is the country’s third largest export earner, behind coal and iron ore, bringing in A$13 billion ($10.5 billion) in the 2007-08 fiscal year. Indian students spend huge amounts of money on pursuing courses in Australia which has a 1.5 billion dollar business under this head.