[RAICES] disturbing news from times of india...

[prachee sinha]

hey all,
i found this news in the newspaper this morning. thought some of you might 
be interested in reading this if you havent already.
take care
love and peace
prachee
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Indian tortured, stabbed in Boston

PTI[ THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2003 03:09:26 PM ]

NEW YORK: In yet another incident of hate crime against expatriates, an 
Indian graduate student was robbed, beaten, burned with cigarettes, stuffed 
in a trunk, stabbed and dumped in the middle of road by four men after he 
made a food delivery to them in Boston.
Saurabh Bhalerao, 24, a graduate student at University of Massachusetts 
Dartmouth and working for Sarducci's Subs and Pizza, was listed in fair 
condition on Wednesday night after undergoing emergency surgery at Rhode 
Island Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
"It's probably one of the most vicious robberies I have ever seen, but it's 
not unheard of," Fairhaven Police Chief Gary F. Souza was quoted as saying 
by a Boston daily.According to police, Bhalerao from Indore in Madhya 
Pradesh, delivered a pizza at a Weld Street apartment on Sunday night, where 
he was attacked by the four men.
The men originally intended to rob Bhalerao, but intensified their assault 
thinking he was Muslim, continuing to beat him even as he tried to explain 
that he was Hindu, Souza said.
"He pleaded with his attackers... They were telling him he should go back to 
Iraq," the police officer said.
In addition to the beatings, the suspects burned Bhalerao's face and ears 
with a lit cigarette.
At least three attackers then hog-tied the delivery man and stuffed clothes 
in his mouth to prevent him from calling for help. The attackers then beat 
and kicked Bhalerao so badly that they broke the bones in his face, he said.
Police have arrested three of the attackers and framed charges against one 
of them.

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