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'Oz court decision to set free Indian student Kharbanda's attackers disgraceful' | The Melbourne court's decision to set free the youths, who attacked Indian student Kanan Kharbanda and left him blinded in one eye, has been termed as a 'disgraceful' verdict. Kharbanda, an accounting
student, had been walking a friend to a railway station in Melbourne in 2008 when
he was attacked. He suffered a fractured eye socket, broken nose, and lost the
sight in his right eye. Crime Victims Support Association President Noel McNamara
said that it was beyond belief that the youths had been let off "scot free". "It's
disgraceful. The Indian community has the right - all citizens have the right
- to be up in arms about it," News.com.au quoted McNamara, as saying. Majang Ngor,
the last of the gang to face court, was earlier given an eight-month suspended
jail term for the unprovoked attack. Prosecutors had wanted him jailed for four
years. At least three other youths were given nine-month youth supervision orders
in the Children's Court. Meanwhile, the Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing
against those sentences. |
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