20 incidents of attacks on Indians in a month in Sydney

Singh,a Sydney-based cardiologist,said the attacks had grown over the last four years and there was an urgent need to address the issue. 8220;There is a term 8216;curry bashing8217; for such incidents8230; and it is used as 8216;lets go curry bashing8217;.8221;

8220;They the attacks are not random at all,the people are targeting them. They know these students are easy targets,8221; Singh said.

Indian students often become victims because they travel home late at night,alone,after working to support their studies,he pointed out,adding that they were also not reporting the incidents to police.

Many students were afraid that lodging any sort of formal police report would harm their chances of permanent residency.

8220;So they will suffer the humiliation and the insult 8230; and the criminals think 8216;We are pretty safe robbing them and nothing will happen8217;,8221; Singh said.

Referring to the petrol bomb attack on 25-year-old hospitality graduate Rajesh Kumar,who received 30 per cent burns,Singh said 8220;it is a clear case of racial attack as there is no other angle we can apply to this attack.8221;

8220;Melbourne has a bigger problem,but if we don8217;t do something it will be repeated in Sydney,8221; said Singh. He sought more intensive undercover police effort to capture the offenders.