Click to play videoNew Delhi: Police in Australia have released images of an Indian student being beaten up by “a gang of thugs” after he refused to give them a cigarette in a Melbourne train.
Sourabh Sharma, 21, was attacked by a group of seven men. The Herald Sun reports on its website that Sharma was attacked when he was travelling alone along Melbourne's Werribee train line on May 9.
The seven men aged approached Sharma as he sat listening to the radio. The youths took Sharma's backpack, which contained Australian $650 for his tuition and rent, along with his mobile phone. Sharma was taken to hospital with a fractured cheekbone and a broken tooth.
The attack was dubbed as 'Indian Hunting' but authorities believe it was not racially motivated.
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