Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress.
The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional nature of crime, reports said.
Justices Marcia Neave, Peter Buchanan and Bernard Bongiorno of the Victorian Court of Appeal rejected his plea.
Buchanan said the sentencing judge, Paul Coghlan, had struck the appropriate balance between the boy's age and the gravity of his crimes....
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11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Pune: The Manchester Police have claimed a breakthrough in the murder of 23-year-old student Anuj Bidve with the arrest of one British national. A team of Manchester Police officials on Tuesday met Bidve's family in Pune. They also discussed details of the family's travel to Manchester. The family was briefed on the second post mortem that took place on Tuesday and also about the procedures involved in repatriating Bidve's body....
05:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: It has been more than a week since Indian student Anuj Bidve was shot dead in the UK. One suspect who claims to be mentally unstable was charged with Bidve's murder, while four others were released on bail. On Monday, hundreds of locals joined Bidve's friend in a candle light vigil at the site where the 23-year old was killed. An impromptu memorial was also held at India...
10:01 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: An Australian teenager has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg. The judge, however, said the attack was not racially motivated. 21-year old Nitin was stabbed to death in Melbourne in January 2010 while he was walking to his workplace. The attack took place at a time of heightened attacks on Indian students and cab drivers in that country. The...
08:37 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Melbourne: The lawyer of a 16-year-old boy, who has pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, told a court that the murder was a result of immaturity of his client believed to be the youngest person in Victorian state of Australia to commit the crime. At a plea hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court, Defence lawyer Marcus Dempsey told the Supreme Court, "At 15 and a half it seems...
12:12 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Melbourne: A 16-year-old boy on Wednesday pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which threatened Australia's ties with India. The teenager, whose identity has not been revealed, appeared in Supreme court where he pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted armed robbery in the killing of Garg. The 21-year-old Garg, who migrated from Punjab, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by assailants...
11:22 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Melbourne: A 16-year-old Australian boy on Friday pleaded guilty in a children's court for his involvement in the stabbing of Indian student Nitin Garg, who died earlier this year, in a case that shocked Indians. The teenager has been charged with committing a robbery by stealing Garg's mobile phone and making a false statement to police in which he denied that his friend had killed the Indian. The young boy...
01:14 PM, Oct 22, 2010
Detectives arrested and charged another teenager from Yarraville suburb over the stabbing of Nitin Garg. ...
11:01 AM, Jun 18, 2010
The 15-year-old accused is expected to face a Children's Court later on Thursday. ...
10:53 AM, Jun 17, 2010
21-year-old accounting graduate was stabbed to death in Melbourne. ...
10:52 AM, Jan 24, 2010
Nitin Garg was stabbed to death on January 2 in Melbourne. ...
09:01 PM, Jan 23, 2010
The Australian police has continued to downplay the killing. ...
02:25 AM, Jan 05, 2010
Nitin Garg worked at a fast food joint in Melbourne. ...
11:21 AM, Jan 04, 2010
