Global Sikh News

• Case of chargesheet against Sajjan Kumar adjourned again
  New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) The hearing on the chargesheet prepared by Delhi police against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case was adjourned yet again in a Delhi court as the judge who was to hear the arguments in the matter was on leave. District Judge S K Sarvaria was [...]
  
  
• SGPC extends date for electoral rolls publication by month
  Chandigarh, Sep 3 (PTI) Deadline of publication of manuscripts of electoral rolls for Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee has been extended by a month as Punjab and Haryana governments would be unable to complete the work in time due to shortage of personnel, an official said today. “In the wake of demands from different states, we [...]
  
  
• Gurmail Singh murder trial: What the five accused told police
  Sep 3: ACCORDING to the prosecution, the five defendants have given varying accounts about their involvement in the robbery: Muawaz Khalid confessed to a friend the day after the incident that he had been involved in the robbery and in the attack on Mr Singh. He told the friend to “keep his mouth shut’’. Later searches [...]
  
  
• Community Fight for Equal Opportunity in Army Marches On
  (New York, NY) September 1, 2010 – For the third time in less than a year, the U.S. Army announced that it will accept a Sikh recruit. The recruit, Simran Preet Singh Lamba, steadfastly refused to remove his dastaar (turban) or shave his hair as conditions of his service. A Step in the Right Direction, [...]
  
  
• Gang killed shopkeeper with his own wine bottles, court told
  A shopkeeper was beaten to death with wine bottles from his own shelves as he tried to fend off a gang of thieves, a court heard today. Gurmail Singh, who was 63, died as he defended the Huddersfield shop he had built up as a retirement business after working in a mill and a factory [...]