Canberra, May 22: An Indian cab driver attacked the Australian state of Tasmania in unconscious state and the two racists. 25-year-old Pradeep Singh was hit by two passengers on Saturday night at the Bay MacDonald Drive. She was attacked when she was asked to move the passenger out of the cab, "the Mercury newspaper said.
"Please get out of the car... If you mess up the car you have to pay a cleaning fee," Singh told the woman. Singh said the passengers started abusing him and the woman told him in an expletive-filled rant that she wouldn't pay the fare or cleaning fee. "They punched me too many times and kicked me," Singh said. "(They said) 'You f.....g Indians deserve this'."
Singh was admitted overnight to the Royal Hobart Hospital. Police offical Ian Whish-Wilson said the two passengers were charged in relation to the assault on Singh. "There was a dispute over payment and it is alleged the passengers assaulted the driver and damaged the vehicle," said the police official. "It was alleged a racial comment was made during the assault but it does not appear that the incident was racially motivated," he said.
The passengers -- a 21-year-old Sandy Bay woman and a 25-year-old Kingston man -- were charged with assault and injuring property and will appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court on June 26.
In March, Indian cab driver Li Max Joy was assaulted by four teenagers in Tasmania and a third driver of the community was assaulted by four men in June last year. The allegations in this case were placed on Jai's March attack but did not set up a "special research department".
Singh, who studies the hospitality, said he was "very dangerous" for taxis. Indian taxi drivers attack bashing in less than a year.
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