New Delhi, July 23 - A Melbourne-based expatriate Indian has told the Supreme Court it will be 'wrong and counter productive' to dub as racist the recent attacks on Indians in Australia.

Twenty eight-year-old charted accountant Pradeep Ahlawat has made this assertion in an affidavit filed with the apex court.

Ahlawat has described the spate of attacks on Indian students as a general law and order problem arising out of the fact that Indian students end up residing in dangerous localities or suburbs of major towns frequented by addicts and petty criminals, and become their soft target while commuting in the late hours.

In his affidavit, Ahlawat said unscrupulous education counsellors, both in India and Australia, trick Indian students into wrong institutions, often located in dubious and dangerous areas there, in lieu of 'kickbacks' from such institutes.

Ahlawat filed his affidavit after a permission by the apex court to tell his first-hand experience as an expatriate Indian in Australia.

The submissions were made during the apex court's hearing of a lawsuit seeking directions to the Indian government to ensure security to its students there in consultation with the Australian government.