By NNN-PTI,
Melbourne : In yet another incident targeting Indians in Australia, a student-cum-cabbie was threatened with knife by his two passengers, even as police insisted that these cases were not racially-motivated.
The incident, the third against Indian cabbies in two days, occurred yesterday when the driver, who is studying business administration in the Victorian city of Ballart, was called to Birdwood Avenue to pick up passengers, ‘The Age’ reported today.
It came shortly after another Indian taxi driver was abused and punched by his four passengers, one of whom spat on him, in Ballart, which is 110-kms west of here. It also occurred just a day after a man was jailed for three months for abusing and threatening to kill an Indian taxi driver.
In the latest case “there were only two male offenders,” Detective Senior Constable Highthorn said.