An article from the ABC news website titled "man charged over Indian toddlers death"
on 7/3/10
A 23-year-old man has appeared at an out of sessions court hearing in Melbourne charged over the death of three-year-old Gurshan Singh.
The Indian boy went missing from a house in Lalor in Melbourne's north last Thursday and his body was found hours later on the side of a road near Melbourne Airport.
Gursewak Dhillon of Lalor has been charged with manslaughter by criminal negligence.
The court heard Dhillon allegedly put the unconscious toddler in the boot of a car and drove around for three hours.
It is alleged he then dumped him on the side of a road without checking if he was alive.
The hearing was told the man is not related to the boy.
Dhillon was refused bail and will reappear in the Melbourne Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
Mystery has surrounded the toddler's death and an autopsy failed to determine how the boy died.
Earlier, detectives released details of a car that was seen in the area where Gurshan's body was discovered.
They were looking for information or any sightings of a green VR or VT Commodore that was spotted in the area around St Johns and Wildwood roads on Thursday afternoon.
The family is waiting for police to release the boy's body before deciding when to head back to India.
An Indian student group in Australia has offered to pay for the body to be flown home.
A spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, Gautam Gupta, says the organisation has offered to assist the boy's family using its victims of crime fund.
He says he has not heard back from the boy's parents yet.
"But our offer stands and we will do whatever else is required because we do understand that they are in a a very difficult situation," he said.
"The more the community shows support, it will at least heal their wounds a little bit."
India's opposition has demanded a parliamentary debate on the case, which Indian community leaders in Australia fear could reignite tensions between the two countries.
Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has been in India on a fence-mending expedition, trying to calm anger about allegedly racist attacks on Indian students in Victoria.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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