In yet another racial attack on Indian students in Australia, a 22-year-old Sikh youth was assaulted by a group of six teenagers, who tried to remove his turban and cut the hair.
Resham Singh, a student of hospitality course who came from Punjab six months ago, became the 20th victim
within a month when he was attacked on Monday at Dandenong Station in Melbourne.
Singh, who could not speak English properly, explained in Punjabi that "They first abused me and left and then again came back with more people and also got a pair of scissors along with them. They tried to remove my turban and cut my hair."
"My friends tried to save me," he said, adding "education agent back in India never gave me any information of how hard life will be here."
The attackers were later arrested by the police. Victoria police confirmed the arrest of the two persons but withheld the identity of the victim.
"The youths from Dandenong -- aged 13 and 15 years -- were charged with intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing serious injury and assault in company," a police spokesperson said.