Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh Gargaj said the legal process in the UK gave punishment to Vickrum Singh Digwa giving no special treatment to religious exemption, and the Sikh community agrees with it

As the incident from December last year in Southampton caused an uproar, Britain’s Sikh lawmakers on Tuesday defended the kirpan during a heated debate in the UK Parliament

Critics of the religious practice claim that a ‘two-tier’ policing framework protects British ethnic minorities at the expense of others.

Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh Gargaj said the legal process in the UK gave punishment to Vickrum Singh Digwa giving no special treatment to religious exemption,…