Australian authorities has condemned the killing of an Indian youth in Melbourne calling his stabbing a heinous crime. <br/><br/>21-year-old Nitin Garg, an accounting graduate, died after he was stabbed yesterday in West Footscray area. He was the first to die in a slew of attacks on Indians in Australia.<br/><br/>Condemning the attack, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that people of Melbourne join the people across rest of Australia in unreservedly condemning the incident.<br/><br/>She said that police should now be allowed to carry out their investigation. Victorian police, meanwhile, denied any racism angle in the killing of the Indian youth, claiming that there was no evidence to suggest it was a racially-motivated attack.<br/>