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Oz police move on Indian groups acting as railway station guards
Melbourne:
Indian groups standing guard at railway stations in Melbourne 's west to protect
students from racial attacks, have been asked to move by the police. The groups
have been gathering at St Albans and Thomastown railway stations after a spate
of assaults on Indians in the area, the latest on Kamal Jit, 23, who was bashed
unconscious while walking home from the St Albans railway station on the weekend.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said police had already increased patrols on the
Sydenham train line, the railway stations and at St Albans shopping centre, The
Age reports. She said Indians conducting their own security patrols should "leave
and let police do their jobs." "We have been talking to them about their concerns
and because of that have increased patrols in the area," the spokeswoman said.
The group has complied with police requests to move, but then returned the following
night or gone to other locations, she added. She refused to confirm whether two
men who stabbed a 20-year-old man in St Albans yesterday were Indians lashing
out after being racially abused by the victim. No one has yet been charged over
the incident.
