Another student attacked in Oz

A student was knifed and a gurdwara vandalised in two separate incidents in Victoria as violence against Indians continued in Australia.

While hooligans attacked Nardeep Singh, 20, in Frankston, Melbourne, on Tuesday, Sikhs found a gurdwara in Shepparton, central Victoria, vandalised on Monday night, The Age reported.
Singh, a nursing student, was attacked while leaving his Chisholm Institute in Dandenong at 1:30pm on Tuesday.

Five men confronted him at a car park and demanded cigarettes. When Singh, who arrived from Ludhiana two months ago, told them he was a non-smoker, they demanded money. When he refused, one of them slashed him across the chest with a box cutter.

The police called it an “opportunistic fight”. Singh’s injury was minor and he did not need hospital treatment.

Meanwhile, police in Shepparton, a small farming town 90km north of Melbourne, confirmed to The Age that the gurdwara was vandalised on Monday night.

India Today’s website reported that devotees found racist graffiti and abuses written on the walls of the gurdwara. A swastika sign was drawn on the walls and miscreants had also thrown eggs at the building, the website said.