SYDNEY, Oct. 28 (Xinhua/GNA) — Authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), on Monday announced a million-dollar reward for information about the 2015 murder of an Indian woman in western Sydney.
The state government of NSW and NSW Police, offered a 1-million-Australian-dollar (about 660,000 U.S. dollars) reward to anyone, who provides information to police, that leads to the arrest, and conviction of, the person, or persons, responsible for the death of Prabha Arun Kumar.
Kumar, a 41-year-old mother of one, was walking home through a park in Parramatta, a major suburb approximately 20 km west of central Sydney, at about 9:30 p.m. local time on March 7, 2015, when she was stabbed by an unknown person.
Emergency services were called to the scene and treated the Indian national for stab wounds to the neck, but she later died in hospital.
NSW Police initially said the attack may have been random, but Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty told reporters on Monday that it is now being treated as a targeted attack.
Detectives have spent the last decade searching for Kumar’s killer, and are hoping this reward will shake loose the memories of those who saw her before her death, who might be able to help police, he said in a statement.
The pathway on which the attack occurred was in November 2015, renamed the Prabha Memorial Walk. The reward has been made available globally.