A CARTOONIST has defended his controversial work likening Australian police to Ku Klux Klan.
THE cartoonist, whose controversial cartoon was published in an Indian paper, said he was responding to a police failure to acknowledge racist attacks against Indians.
The cartoon, published in Delhi's Mail Today, drew condemnation across Australia from police and political leaders yesteray for showing a figure with an Australian police badge dressed in a pointed white hood.
It was published in response to homicide investigators in Victoria being unable to say if the recent killing of 21-year-old Indian student Nitin Garg in a Melbourne park was racially motivated.
The Ku Klux Klan-dressed officer in the cartoon states: "We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.''
Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard condemned the cartoon yesterday as the Indian media continued to accuse Australia of not doing enough to solve the late-night stabbing.
"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,'' Ms Gillard said.
The cartoonist, R Prasad, told AAP the cartoon depicted an official acceptance of racism by failing to act against race attacks.
"I was responding to the news about the Australian authorities and police refusing to acknowledge the underlying racism in the attacks against Indian youth, particularly the murder of Nitin Garg,'' Mr Prasad said in an email.
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