Indian held for toddler’s death in Australia

There is no racial angle to the killing of a three-year-old Indian toddler in Australia.

A 23-year-old Indian man has been charged on Sunday over the death of an Indian toddler, whose body was found three days ago in a Melbourne suburb. Dhillon Gursewak has been charged with manslaughter.

The man, who has been charged with murdering Gurshan Singh Channa from Punjab who was in Australia on a vacation with his parents, is not a relative, but did live in the same house in David Street, Lalor as Gurshan, reports said.

Channa's body was found by a council worker on Thursday night, six hours after he disappeared from a rented property shared by his parents with friends and family here. A total of 12 people lived in the house.

Dhillon kept him unconscious in the boot of his car and drove around for at least three hours before dumping the child in a field north of Melbourne, police said on Sunday.

Dhillon “placed the child in the boot of his car unconscious but still alive”, Ron Iddles, Senior Sergeant of the homicide squad, was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press (AAP). “He then drove up to at least three hours with the child in the boot of the car, eventually stopping at Oaklands Junction, where he placed the child from the boot into the grass and did not check to see if the child was alive, then returned to 28, David Street, Lalor,” Iddles said.

- Asian Tribune -