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 New South Wales’s Goulburn 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,” the 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 was trying 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 pick up his belongings as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard some shouting and saw there was a fight. When Navjeet tried to intervene asking them not to fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife,” Sandhu’s uncle Yashvir was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

Navjeet was a brilliant student and was to join his family in July for vacations, his uncle said.

He said that Navjeet had moved to Australia on a study visa one-and-a-half years ago and his father, a farmer, had sold one-and-half acres of their land to fund his education.

Earlier, Victoria Police released details and images of the two brothers they were searching for in the stabbing incident in Ormond on Sunday.

Abhijeet is 26 years old and was described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair. Gartan, 27, was also described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.

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 New South Wales’s Goulburn 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,” the 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 was trying 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 pick up his belongings as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard some shouting and saw there was a fight. When Navjeet tried to intervene asking them not to fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife,” Sandhu’s uncle Yashvir was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

Navjeet was a brilliant student and was to join his family in July for vacations, his uncle said.

He said that Navjeet had moved to Australia on a study visa one-and-a-half years ago and his father, a farmer, had sold one-and-half acres of their land to fund his education.

Earlier, Victoria Police released details and images of the two brothers they were searching for in the stabbing incident in Ormond on Sunday.

Abhijeet is 26 years old and was described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair. Gartan, 27, was also described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.

A 22-year-old M.Tech student from India was stabbed to death in Australia during a fight between some Indian students and police are searching for two Indian-origin brothers in connection with the murder.

Navjeet Sandhu was fatally attacked with a knife by another student when he tried to intervene in a dispute between a few Indian students over some rent issue, according to the deceased victim’s uncle Mr. Yashvir in Karnal, Haryana.

“Navjeet’s friend [another Indian student] had asked him to accompany him to his house to pick up his belongings as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard some shouts and saw there was a scuffle. When Navjeet tried to intervene asking them not to fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife,” Mr. Yashvir, who’ll retire from the Army in July, said.

He added that like Mr. Navjeet, the alleged accused also hails from Karnal.

Mr. Yashvir said the family got the information about the incident early morning on May 5.

Mr. Navjeet’s friend, whom he was accompanying, also sustained injuries in the incident, the uncle of the deceased said.

Mr. Yashvir said the family is in a state of shock. “Navjeet was a brilliant student and was to join his family in July for vacations,” he said.

According to Mr. Yashvir, Mr. Navjeet had moved to Australia on a study visa one-and-a-half years ago and his father, a farmer, had sold one-and-half acres of their land to fund his education.

“We urge the Government of India to help us to bring the body as soon as possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, Victoria Police said their Homicide Squad detectives are releasing details and images of two men they are searching for following a stabbing in Ormond in Melbourne’s south-east.

A search is currently underway for brothers Abhijeet and Robin Gartan, both of Indian descent, it said.

Abhijeet is 26 years old and described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.

Gartan is 27 years old and is also described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.

It’s believed they are travelling in a stolen 2014 white Toyota Camry sedan.

The pair was last seen in the Ormond area in the early hours of May 5, shortly after the incident occurred.

Emergency services were called to a residential property at about 1 am on May 5, following reports of a dispute, the statement said.

Upon arrival, two men were located with stab wounds.

Victoria Police, however, did not identify the victims.

It is understood two other men fled the scene following the incident and police are continuing to search for the pair.

It’s believed the parties involved in the incident were known to each other and police are still working to establish the cause of the dispute, the police statement said.

Investigators are keen to speak to anyone who knows the current whereabouts of the two men, it said.