Sunny Bajaj, 20, said he was taunted and punched by two men as he was about to get into his car in Boronia on Friday night.

"They came up to me and asked me for money, I told them I had none and then they attacked me," Mr Bajaj said today.

He said they slammed his car door onto his hand and punched him in the head and stomach and then racially abused him.

"They called me a ----ing Indian c--- - why would they do that? I said nothing to them," the Deakin University student said.

He said his attackers were in their 20s, one was white, while the other appeared to be of African descent.

Mr Bajaj, from New Delhi, suffered a fractured finger, bruising to his back and a blood nose in the attack.

Police are investigating.