GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 9th May. Two brothers from Haryana have been arrested in Australia for stabbing a 22-year-old MTech student from India. Abhijeet and Robin Gartan were arrested in Goulburn, New South Wales on Tuesday, two days after the fatal stabbing of Navjeet Sandhu in the Melbourne suburb of Ormond, officials said.
Abhijeet and Robin Gartan were arrested in Goulburn with the help of NSW Police, according to an official statement from Victoria Police.
The victim and the accused were both residents of Haryana’s Karnal.
According to the victim’s uncle, Sandhu was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife by another student while trying to mediate a confrontation in a rent-related dispute between a group of Indian students. Navjeet’s 30-year-old friend also sustained injuries in the incident.
Navjeet’s friend, another Indian student, had asked him to accompany him to his house to pick up his belongings as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard shouting and saw a fight. When Navjeet tried to intervene and stop the fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife, Sandhu’s uncle Yashvir said, as reported by the news agency PTI.
Navjeet was a brilliant student and was supposed to join his family in July for vacations, his uncle mentioned.
He added that Navjeet had moved to Australia on a study visa one-and-a-half years ago, and his father, a farmer, had sold one-and-a-half acres of their land to fund his education.
Earlier, Victoria Police had released details and images of the two brothers they were searching for in connection with the stabbing incident in Ormond on Sunday.
Abhijeet, 26 years old, was described as 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair. Gartan, 27, was also described as 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.
