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Court bars Sikh from wearing turban
WSN Network

STOCKTON: Another Sikh seems to have been denied his basic right to wear a turban as a San Joaquin County superior court judge is said to have told a Sikh man facing trial over the murder of his daughter's former boyfriend to appear before jurors without his turban. Judge Charlotte Orcutt said that the long fabric pious men use to wrap their hair could hide a weapon or be used as a noose. Sikh leadership holds that the ruling against 56-year-old Gurparkash Khalsa of Stockton was akin to asking someone to go to court without pants. She called the ruling "shocking" and a "violation of his civil rights."

Corrections officers are also reported to have refuses to allow Khalsa to wear the turban in jail. He is charged with murder of a 23-year-old Lodi man who had impregnated his daughter.

12 November 2008
 

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