Indian in Australia jailed over road rage attack

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Indian in Australia jailed over road rage attack
AUSTRALIA - 17 AUGUST 2011

MELBOURNE: An Indian student was on Wednesday handed down a jail term of two-and-a-half years by an Australian court, which found him guilty of recklessly causing serious injuries to a group of compatriots during a road rage attack.

25-year-old Gurdeep Singh Mann, who lives in Victoria, will have to serve at least 18 months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence before he becomes eligible for parole. He is expected to face deportation after serving the prison term, local media reported.

Mann was driving near Glenhuntly Road in Melbourne's south in June 2009 when he narrowly missed hitting three pedestrians who were also his fellow countrymen, the Victorian County Court heard.

He drove in front of the men and stopped a short distance away when he heard them hurling abuse in his native language, Judge Frank Gucciardo was quoted as saying.

Mann and his passenger got out of the car to confront the men and the group began exchanging insults, pushing, shoving and punching each other, Judge Gucciardo said.

Mann's friend, a hospitality student, grabbed one of his cooking knives from the car and started slashing at two of the men.

After the jury found Mann guilty on two counts of recklessly causing serious injury, he was sentenced to two-and -a-half years' jail term and ordered that he serve 18 months before becoming eligible for parole.

Mann would probably be deported on his release because of his criminal record.


Source: Press Trust of India

 

[Anonymous]

He deserved what he got.

 

[Blackwater]

Too much of Asians in Australia now.

 

[Blackwater]

Indian in Australia jailed over road rage attack
AUSTRALIA - 17 AUGUST 2011

MELBOURNE: An Indian student was on Wednesday handed down a jail term of two-and-a-half years by an Australian court, which found him guilty of recklessly causing serious injuries to a group of compatriots during a road rage attack.

25-year-old Gurdeep Singh Mann, who lives in Victoria, will have to serve at least 18 months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence before he becomes eligible for parole. He is expected to face deportation after serving the prison term, local media reported.

Mann was driving near Glenhuntly Road in Melbourne's south in June 2009 when he narrowly missed hitting three pedestrians who were also his fellow countrymen, the Victorian County Court heard.

He drove in front of the men and stopped a short distance away when he heard them hurling abuse in his native language, Judge Frank Gucciardo was quoted as saying.

Mann and his passenger got out of the car to confront the men and the group began exchanging insults, pushing, shoving and punching each other, Judge Gucciardo said.

Mann's friend, a hospitality student, grabbed one of his cooking knives from the car and started slashing at two of the men.

After the jury found Mann guilty on two counts of recklessly causing serious injury, he was sentenced to two-and -a-half years' jail term and ordered that he serve 18 months before becoming eligible for parole.

Mann would probably be deported on his release because of his criminal record.


Source: Press Trust of India

Couple of Pakistani descent shot in US


BOONTON: A young couple of Pakistani descent was fired on while walking their son in a stroller on a quiet street in New Jersey. The woman died, and her husband, a Harvard Ph.D. student, was wounded.

Authorities said Wednesday that the incident on Tuesday night was not random. The 3-year-old child was not injured.

Nazish Noorani and her husband, Kashif Pervaiz, were walking the few blocks from her sister's home to her father's house in this small suburban town when gunfire erupted on a dark street, authorities said.

Noorani was killed and Pervaiz was shot four times, police said. He told authorities there were three attackers, according to Pervaiz's childhood friend, Hyder Khan.

Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said Wednesday the shooting "appears to be target-specific" and that there was no danger to the general public. He declined to provide any more details, saying it could compromise the investigation.

Pervaiz was alert and talking when he was taken to the hospital, family members said. The couple's other child was at home at the time of the shooting.

Pervaiz graduated with honors from Columbia University and is studying for his doctoral degree in architecture and engineering at Harvard, family members said.

Noorani was a native of Karachi, Pakistan, while Pervaiz was originally from Brooklyn, the family said. The couple married six years ago in Boonton, a suburb about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from New York City that has a large Pakistani-American population.

Noorani's older brother, Kaleem, asked that anyone with information about the attack contact police. The shooting occurred in a quiet, hilly neighborhood of tidy single-family homes.

Around midday Wednesday, a detective knelt in the doorway of Noorani's father's house and spoke to a small child. Pervaiz's father, Shafiq Hassan, later left the house with one of the children and drove off in an SUV.

When asked if he had spoken to his son, he said, "He's OK. He's in surgery."

Noorani was wearing traditional Pakistani clothing at the time of the shooting, but family members and police said they did not believe it was a bias crime.

Waj Khan, a cousin of Noorani, said in the 15 years he's lived in Boonton, he has never experienced any ethnic bias.

"There are a lot of Muslims here," Khan said. "I've never had anything happen to me. This is just shocking. It's like it isn't reality."

The husband's brother, Mansoor Hassan, of Brooklyn, told The Associated Press that the family was waiting for answers, and that he didn't believe there were any witnesses.

"At nighttime, it's a very dark way, and they don't have any lights" on the street, Hassan said. Hassan said the couple's children are with their grandparents and other family members.

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