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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Indian "Cultural Enrichment" and "Harmony Day" ambassador Extradited to Australia to face Rape Charges


Indian Accused Of Rape Extradited To Australia To Face Charges


MELBOURNE – A 25-year-old Indian taxi driver, who is accused of raping a woman passenger two years ago in Australia, appeared briefly before a court here after being extradited from India.


Jaswinder Singh Mutta, who was extradited from India in January this year following his arrest by Indian police, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Mutta allegedly raped 26-year-old passenger in his taxi late at night in the suburb of North Fitzroy on January 17, 2010.


He was charged with two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault, according to The Age newspaper. Magistrate Jelena Popovic explained to Mutta that he had been brought before the court for a filing hearing.


Popovic said Mutta and his lawyer would be given access to the police brief of evidence against him by July 31. Mutta was remanded in custody for a committal mention on August 31. He did not apply for bail.


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Jaswinder Singh Mutta, the first Indian to be extradited to Victoria, is facing two counts of 
rape charges and one of indecent assault.


IBN


Melbourne: The 25-year-old Indian taxi driver, extradited on charges of raping an Australian woman passenger, had fled the country on a one-way ticket to India after committing the crime, a court was told on Thursday.


Jaswinder Singh Mutta, the first Indian to be extradited to Victoria, is facing two counts of 
rape charges and one of indecent assault.


Mutta appeared in a Victoria court where it was heard that the cabbie fled to India on a one way ticket after allegedly raping his passenger. He left Melbourne on a Thai Airways flight on February 6, 2010 after buying his one way ticket.


In opposing Mutta's bail application in a Magistrates Court, senior investigative official, Shane Jenkins, unfolded the incident and informed that the alleged victim, who was 26, had met two girlfriends for dinner on January 17, 2010, and had been drinking wine throughout the night.
According to a report in 'The Age' newspaper, Jenkins told the court that the victim hailed 


Mutta's taxi and asked him to take her home.
Jenkins said the woman vomited in the back of the taxi and Mutta told her she would have to clean it up. 
Mutta drove her home and waited as she went to get a bucket of water and some cleaning products. As she was cleaning the taxi, Mutta pointed inside the taxi and said, "What about that?". 
Mutta then forced the woman into the back seat of the taxi and raped her.
The official informed the court that Mutta at one stage told the woman, "Maybe I have AIDS", before saying, "Just joking".


Mutta, who came to Australia in December 2008 on a student visa, was interviewed by police on February 4 where he denied the rape allegations and refused to take part in an 
identification parade or give a DNA sample.


Jenkins said police had seized Mutta's mobile phone which had two photographs of the 
alleged victim. Mutta was released by police because of insufficient evidence at the time and next day he went to a flight centre office, and paid USD 975.59 for the one-way flight to New Delhi via Bangkok before flying out later that night.
Jenkins said a warrant for Mutta's arrest was issued after police found semen in the back of his taxi and in the victim's underwear.


Mutta was taken into custody by Indian authorities on January 5 this year before being 
extradited. It was the first time an Indian national had been extradited to Victoria.


Navy capable of winning sea battle of wills


Piers Akerman
The Daily Telegraph
July 20, 2012 8:09AM


CLAIMS the Australian navy cannot turn back the boats are ridiculous.


Yet the ABC persists in trotting out retired defence brass hats to claim such work is dangerous or it is not the sort of work navy people like.


Well, boo hoo to retired Admiral Chris Barrie and former defence secretary Paul Barratt, who have ventured into these politically charged waters with a series of interviews in which they have given a clear indication why the Defence department has been such an easy target for gutting by the Labor-Green-independent government.


Barrie, who did not distinguish himself with his confused thinking during the children overboard affair, now asks: "Are we still playing a game where nobody's prepared to give anything on this issue and that leaves asylum seekers still in jeopardy?"


Barratt doesn't pretend to take a detached view. He takes the position that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has no wish to solve this problem: "He wants to maintain it as a problem because he sees it as an election winner."But Abbott has said he wants to solve this problem and has proposed the reintroduction of measures that ended the lethal business of human trafficking under the Howard government. Those measures included turning back boats when possible and issuing illegal boat arrivals with temporary protection visas.


The US Coast Guard turns boats back to Cuba and the Dominican Republic on an almost daily basis. The Sri Lankan navy turns boats back. Our navy is more than up to the task, as distasteful as it may be.


In May 2004, I was aboard HMAS Stuart in the Persian Gulf when Captain Phil Spedding was routinely sending heavily armed boarding parties to inspect suspicious dhows posing a threat to shipping and offshore oil facilities. A week earlier, on the eve of Anzac Day, a flotilla of suicide craft had launched attacks on the crew of the USS Firebolt, killing three.


As I watched, the Stuart's two boarding craft William and Wallace swept off to a large dhow.


The boarding party was led by the Stuart's executive officer, Lieutenant Commander Michelle Miller, now Captain Miller.


Was the job dangerous? Yes. Was Lt-Cdr Miller capable of performing her duty as an RAN officer? You bet.


Only yesterday, a former human rights commissioner warned that hundreds, if not thousands, of asylum seekers will almost certainly drown on their way to Australia unless something is done to stop people-smuggling boats. In his submission to the federal government's expert panel on asylum seekers, Dr Sev Ozdowski said Labor's decision to wind back the Howard government's Pacific Solution and temporary protection visas created an undeniable pull factor for people trying to flee Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Iraq.


"If the current trend continues, boat arrivals for 2012 will be well over 10,000," he wrote.


"The increased boat people arrivals will almost certainly result in hundreds or thousands of people drowning on the way to Australia. This statement is not alarmist - it will happen."


On Wednesday, the sixth illegal boat with some 65 people aboard arrived in just three days - taking the total number of undocumented arrivals since Labor wound back the Coalition's border protection policies in 2007 to nearly 21,000.






The government's panel is due to report before parliament resumes next month but the government's alliance partners, the Greens, have already sent in a submission at odds with Labor's proposed Malaysian Solution and Labor has warned it will not necessarily support the panel's recommendations.


As opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said: "Not only have Labor sought to distance themselves from their own expert panel by reserving their position on its recommendations, they remain at war with their alliance partners on the committee they set up to solve the problem."


More than 131 boats carrying nearly 9500 undocumented people have arrived since the Malaysian Solution was announced on May 7, 2011. Under the swap-and-release proposal, Australia would have sent 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia and received 4000 in return.


The High Court killed the plan stone dead because the government could not guarantee the security of those sent to Malaysia, which is not a signatory to the UN Convention on Human Rights - a basic requirement once insisted upon by Labor. The plan was meant to be a one-off and act as a deterrent but there is no indication it would have succeeded.


On the other hand, if Labor had not dismantled the Howard government's border protection regime, people would not have died at sea, more than $1 billion would have been saved, the Christmas Island detention centre would be mothballed and naval and customs officers would have been freed to get on with other duties.

Alan Jones Michael Smith on Julia Gillard and the ex AWU Official Boyfriend


Julia Gillard and the Australian Workers Union
Alan Jones is joined by Michael Smith to discuss the Prime Minister and the AWU.



Andrew Bolt previously spoke with Mike Smith on The Bolt Report 
May 20 2012


Thomson Resign

Background on the Thomson Affair and the Hospital Services Union



The war on free speech: Michael Smith again

Andrew Bolt 
Nov 30 2011Sure, Michael Smith has been cleared by ACMA, not least because he seems to know a bit more about the Koran than his critics:From the information provided and the ACMA’s independent research, there does not appear to be any conclusive or consistent evidence as to the exact age of Aisha when she married Muhammad and when the marriage was consummated.Notwithstanding that there is some dispute as to the age of Aisha when she was married, there can be no dispute that many authoritative sources state that she married Muhammad at a young age, whether that age was six, seven or nine.The ACMA is therefore of the view that Michael Smith’s statement that Aisha was married to Muhammad when she was nine and that the marriage was consummated when she was eleven is ‘reasonably supportable as being accurate’.But this attrition by lawfare, requiring expensive and time-consuming responses to the thought-police, with all the worry and reputational damage this involves, will guarantee that many other journalists simply refuse to take the risk of saying anything at all on controversial but important social issues.I’d also like to know why the complainant can stay anonymous while trying to silence or discredit the journalist who dares to express an opinion. This is star chamber stuff.(Thanks to reader bexleyborn. Warning: link to a Word doc.)