One person charged for Indian cabbies murder

Melbourne, 10 Aug (UNI) Melbourne Police has charged a 20-year-old suspect with the murder of an Indian taxi driver.

The local police had earlier sought court's permission to medically reassess and question the suspect to find out more about the killing of the Indian taxi driver.

The suspect Eilyup Zaim was deemed to be unfit for questioning, yesterday, and kept in police custody.

The 27-year-old victim from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, was pursuing his Masters in Accountancy at Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Police siid the part time taxi driver was ''in the wrong place at the wrong time'' on Tuesday night when he picked up Eilyup Zaim who allegedly bashed Rajneesh and tried to hijack his taxi pushing him out of the moving taxi in east suburban Donvale.

Rajneesh Joga reportedly suffered fatal head and chest injuries when he became pinned against a tree on impact.

Eilyup Zaim was arrested from the crime scene as three men wrestled him to ground and kept him under ''public arrest'' till police arrived. According to media reports, Eilyup Zaim was under the influence of the illegal drug ''ice''.

It is believed that the accused was being chased by police for stealing another car. The police reportedly abandoned the chase on Springvale Road when the stolen car jumped few red traffic lights.

The accused himself got injured when he was hit by another car in his effort to get away from the chasing police.

The killing has once again led to calls for more security for the Melbourne taxi drivers from violent passengers. A large number of these drivers in the capital city of Victoria happen to be South Asian students studying in various Victorian institutes.

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