Indian fans face racism charges

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Four Indian cricket fans have been charged for allegedly racially abusing Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds by making monkey gestures, police say.
The four fans were evicted from a one-day international match in Mumbai (Bombay) Wednesday, reports BBC.
Symonds is the only mixed race player in the Australian side, having made his international debut in 1998.
He frequently clashed with Indian players during the one-day series, which Australia won 4-2.
Cricket officials say that photographs of fans making offensive gestures to Symonds as he came in to bat have been handed over to police.
Police say that the four fans, including a woman, have been charged with harassment and have now been released on bail to appear in court at a later date.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says that the gestures were made even as an anti-racism message flashed on a big screen.
"There is no place for racism in cricket either on or off the field," a joint statement released Wednesday by Indian and Australian cricket officials said.
"All cricket nations have to be on guard to ensure that the fun does not cross the boundary into unacceptable behaviour."
Officials say that Indian fans might have targeted Symonds because of his heated exchanges with Indian bowlers Harbhajan Singh and Shantakumaran Sreesanth.
Symonds, who was born in England to West Indian parents, but then adopted and taken to Australia by his new family when he was two years old, complained of being subjected to monkey chanting earlier in the series.
Initially his allegations were dismissed by the Indian cricket authorities, who said that there was a lack of evidence and later that it may have been caused by a "cultural misunderstanding".