15 –year-old Taken into Custody in Australia for Indian Student’s Murder

A 15-year-old Australian boy has been taken into custody in connection with the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg, who was stabbed to death in Melbourne earlier this year, said media reports.

The boy was arrested in Yarraville and will be produced in a Children’s court today, reports said.

According to homicide detectives, he will be charged with one count of murder, said reports.

An accounting gradute, Garg was stabbed on January 2 as he walked through Cruickshank Park in Melbourne’s west on his way to a Yarraville Hungry Jack’s outlet, where he worked part time.

After the stabbing, Garg staggered to the fast food outlet, at the corner of Somerville and Geelong roads, and died later.

Bernie Edwards, Detective Inspector of the Homicide Squad, said that police believed race was not a factor in the murder, reports said.

“At this stage, we don’t believe it was racially motivated,” he was quoted as saying by The Age.

He said that Garg’s family in India had been informed about the arrest, said reports.

Edwards said that the police are still searching for the weapon used in the murder and that the killing was not believed to be gang-related, reports said.

(Based on internet reports)