Australian anger at Indian daily's Ku Klax Klan insinuation...

Australia on Friday angrily condemned an Indian newspaper cartoon likening its police to the Ku Klux Klan over their investigations into the murder of a young Indian man.

New Delhi's Mail Today ran the cartoon showing a figure with an Australian police badge wearing a pointed white hood, following the murder of 21-year-old Indian national Nitin Garg in Melbourne last weekend.

"Any suggestion of that kind is deeply, deeply offensive to the police officers involved and I would absolutely condemn the making of a comment like that," said Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

The murder of 21-year-old accounting graduate Garg has ignited tensions between India and Australia that have been simmering for the last 18 months following a series of attacks in Victoria state against Indians. More...

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