Australian state Victoria’s police on Monday launched pictures of six males, believed to have been concerned within the late January Khalistan referendum incident which was organised in state capital Melbourne and culminated into brawls between Khalistani activists and pro-India demonstrators.
“Police are interesting for public help as they proceed to analyze an affray on the Khalistan Referendum at Federation Sq. on 29 Jan. Police have launched pictures of six males they imagine could possibly help with their enquiries,” Victoria police mentioned in a tweet, releasing the pictures.
The incident, by which two folks had been injured and as many Sikh males had been detained, was organised in Melbourne’s Federation Sq. to carry a so-called ‘Punjab independence referendum’ on January 29, as per the police officers.
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As per police assertion, through the incident two fights broke out, one at about 12.45pm and the opposite at about 4.30pm. “Throughout the battle, flag poles had been utilized by a number of males as weapons which brought about bodily accidents to a number of victims by which two victims had been handled on the scene by paramedics,” the assertion learn.
An Indian flag was additionally burnt by a gaggle of males on the occasion.
“Because of every incident a 34-year-old man and a 39-year-old man had been arrested, and every issued with a penalty discover for riotous behaviour,” the police had mentioned, following the incident.
The event within the case comes days after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s go to to India earlier this month, when he had assured PM Narendra Modi of Australia’s intolerance in direction of hate crimes together with these on non secular grounds.
On PM Modi’s issues about assaults on temples and actions of pro-Khalistan parts in Australia, Albanese had mentioned “I gave him [Modi] the reassurance that Australia is a rustic that respects folks’s religion. That we don’t tolerate the kind of excessive actions and assaults that we’ve seen on non secular buildings, be they Hindu temples, mosques, synagogues, or church buildings.”