An Indian man was allegedly assaulted by a group of teenagers, who hurled racial abuses at him at a restaurant in Tasmania state.
Li Max Joy, who is pursuing a nursing course and working as a part time taxi driver in Australia, alleged that five people including a girl hurled racial abuses at him and assaulted him up at the McDonald’s restaurant at North Hobart.
Thirty-three year-old Joy, who hails from Puthuppally in Kerala’s Kottayam district, told media that the incident took place when he went to the restaurant for a coffee after returning from a trip. He was admitted to a hospital with bleeding wounds and later reported the matter to police.
Joy has been living in Hobart for the last eight years. He has sought intervention of External Affairs Ministry to ensure punishment to the accused.
Earlier, on March 20, an Indian-origin Catholic priest was stabbed in the neck at a church in Melbourne by a man who called him unqualified to say mass as he was an Indian, prompting the Indian consulate to take up the matter with the police.