Melbourne, March 15: Hundreds of mourners in northern India have attended the final rites of Gurshan Singh, the three-year-old boy whose body was dumped beside a road in Melbourne.
An Indian man who lived with the child’s family in Melbourne has been charged with manslaughter by criminal negligence over the death and is being held in custody.
“We have cremated our little boy. Everybody is sad and we want justice,” said Gurjeet Singh, uncle of the victim, at the funeral on Monday in Kotkapura, 430km from New Delhi.
Mr Singh demanded the Indian government put pressure on Australian authorities to speed up the investigation into the death.
Gurshan’s parents returned to India with their son’s body on Sunday.
—Agencies