Indians Continue Protest in Australia

Crime Report - Indians Abroad

Abhijit Mahato, 29, a student at America’s Duke University, was shot in an apartment in North Carolina.

A Srinivas, a post-graduate medical student from Karimnagar was killed in March this year.


A Kiran Kumar and K Chandrasekhar Reddy, both PhD students from Andhra Pradesh were brutally murdered at Louisiana University in December, 2007.

A day later, another body was found by the police searching for clues in the area. This was the body of Vikram Tummala, who was the cousin of Soumya Reddy. 27-year-old Vikram had also died of bullet injuries. Her body was found slumped in a Ford car, which was registered in the name of Vikram.

TWENTY THREE year-old Soumya Reddy was doing her MS in Southern Illinois University, United States. Her body was found near a lake about 20km from her residence. Early reports suggest that an African-American had shot the student.

By the time police released a statement on the attack last night, it had already been widely reported in India, where the Times Now newspaper identified the victim as Nardeep Singh.

Puneet, Rahul and Sumit are three Indian students studying for their Masters of Business Administration degrees at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Gurjeet Singh, 26, who worked at his uncle Randy Singh's gas station, was shot dead at about 5.15 p.m. Sunday after a brief struggle with the robbers.