Indian student assaulted in Australia: Young Indian student struggles for survival, faces severe neurological damage

Indian student assaulted in Australia: Days after the tragic and heart-breaking death of Indian student Varun Raj Pucha who fought for his life for weeks in the wake of a horrific stabbing incident with a knife by his assailant inside a public gym in October, another spine-chilling incident from Australia came to limelight which gripped tensions and chaos worldwide. 

In a dreadful, distressing and spine-chilling incident, an Indian-origin student assaulted in Australia is currently battling with life, continues to be in serious condition and suffered severe neurological impairment after he was assaulted in Australia. 

The Indian student is in his 20s and is pursuing a master's degree at the University of Tasmania remains in medically induced coma. 

Young Indian youth was assaulted on November 5 at a Tasmanian district which caused 'extradural bleeding' resulted in shifting in position of victims brain. 

As per the reports, it is to be noted that victim’s right lung collapsed and he underwent a brain surgery after which he went to coma. 

After the attack on Indian student, the authorities promptly apprehended the assailant and charged him with criminal assault. 

A 25-year-old Lenah Valley resident, Benjamin Dodge Collings was taken into the police custody after the incident and was charged with criminal code assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 21 years in prison.

Collings was granted magistrate bail and is due back in court on December 4 to answer the charges, which include assault, providing a false address and name, resisting a police officer, and unrelated driving offences.

Youth’s family also faces a harrowing journey fraught with uncertainty and hefty medical bills.

In the recent times, dreams of Indian youth pursuing education in foreign shores is turning into nightmares, with many grappling with mental health issues, robbery and murder cases and Indians are tragically losing their lives shortly after arriving abroad. 

Several cases of deaths of Indian youths abroad have created a state of panic back home in India. Now parents are either not willing to send their children abroad or whose wards are already settled there are in a state of anxiety and panic. 

- With inputs from agencies

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