Date:01/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/01/stories/2008070160461300.htm

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Student cuts Sikh girl’s hair

New York: Sikhs here protested on Monday against an attack on a 12-year-old girl, whose long hair was cut by a fellow student. The June 9 incident at a public school is the third in two months targeting a Sikh student in the city’s Queens Borough. Cutting of hair violates Sikh religious beliefs.

School officials said the accused student was immediately suspended.

On June 3, a student tried to remove a Sikh’s turban and punched him in the face at the Richmond Hill High School. In May, a student’s turban was removed and his hair cut at another Queens school. — AP