Police said the strange circumstances surrounding the attack on Singh, who was set on fire by a group of four men in suburb of Essendon in northwest Melbourne on Saturday led them to believe that it was not racially-motivated.
Detective acting senior sergeant Neil Smyth said police have a general description of who the offenders could be.
The two people who passports were seized were being quizzed about 25-year-old Ranjodh Singh, whose partially-burnt body was found recently. Detectives believe Ranjodh Singh, a seasonal work contractor, may have been murdered in a fight over unpaid wages at a Christmas party two days before his killing.
On the diplomatic front, Australia’s government on Sunday welcomed a call from India for restraint in media coverage of attacks on Indians, stressing there was no evidence that race was a factor in two recent incidents.
New Delhi urged its media to act responsibly after an Indian man was burned in an incident in Melbourne on Saturday, a week after 21-year-old Nitin Garg was stabbed to death in the city’s western suburbs.
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