The victim and the accused were residents of Haryana’s Karnal
New Delhi:
Two brothers from Haryana have been arrested in Australia for stabbing to death 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.
“Brothers Abhijeet Abhijeet and Robin Gartan were arrested in Goulburn with the assistance of NSW Police,” Victoria Police said in an official statement.
The victim and the accused were residents of Haryana’s Karnal.
According to the victim’s uncle, Sandhu was “fatally stabbed in the chest” with a knife by another student when he tried 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 collect his things as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard some shouting and saw that there was an argument . When Navjeet tried to intervene When he asked them not to fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest,” Sandhu’s uncle Yashvir told news agency PTI.
Navjeet was a brilliant student and was going on holiday with his family in July, his uncle said.
He said Navjeet had moved to Australia a year and a half ago on a study visa and his father, a farmer, had sold an acre and a half of their land to finance his education.
Previously, Victoria Police released details and images of the two brothers they were looking for in the Ormond stabbing incident on Sunday.
Abhijeet is 26 years old and was described as 170 cm tall, of heavy build and black hair. Gartan, 27, was also described as 170cm tall, of heavy build and black hair.
