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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Melbourne: The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday summoned the Australian High Commissioner over the racist e-mail scandal involving top Victorian police officers joking about an Indian train passenger's electrocution. In a shocking incident, top Australian police officers were caught in a racist e-mail scandal joking about the electrocution of an Indian train passenger and suggesting that it could be "a way to fix the Indian student problem" in Melbourne....
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Detectives arrested and charged another teenager from Yarraville suburb over the stabbing of Nitin Garg. ... 
In the Melbourne suburb of Ballarat another Indian taxi driver was abused and beaten up. ... 
