Browsing Tag: Law

In India, law often takes a back-seat as far as religious sensibilities are concerned.

Anand marriage bill is passed in parliament. Sikhs will be able to register marriages under 1909 Act .

I have just realized that our legacy is nothing without my Sikh brothers joining their hands and demanding their rights in a Nation that is well known not to respect Sikhs as valued citizens, the same Sikhs that don’t think twice before offering their lives again and again for a country that has 98% Non-Sikhs who just sit back and watch or cheer-on.

A group for gay and transgender Sikhs in the UK has written to the prime minister and Lord Singh to protest the latter’s comments about equal marriage being a ‘secular attack’ on religion and to invite him to WorldPride.

The Centre has stayed the hanging. Now it must commute the sentence.

Leading members of two more religious denominations have joined the attack on Government proposals to allow same-sex couples to marry.

The Punjab Jails Department has refused to execute the order of a Chandigarh court asking the Patiala Central Jail authorities to hang Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana. On Monday, the Central Jail, Patiala authorities also returned the “black or death warrant” of the Chandigarh Court

A volunteer worker at a Sikh temple may be entitled to be paid the minimum wage, a court ruled yesterday.

The government is considering a change in the law to exclude the religion of individuals from marriage certificates. This follows demands by minority groups, including Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists, now shown as Hindus in official documents.

Freedom of religion and the prohibition of discrimination based among others on religion have been laid down in section 1, respectively section 6 of the Constitution and in various treaties on human rights. The Awgb goes further into the details.

Yesterday after almost five years 179 fisherman and four others were released from the Central Jail-Lahore. This is an iconic victory for Sikh man Satinder Paul Singh, whom his family did not even know was alive until the intervention of a British lawyer. The other prisoners released were Sanjeet Kumar, Nasim and Sama Yousaf

Judge Jacek Tyszka ruled that though Warsaw airport border guards had violated his dignity when he was passing through controls at the airport, the action was not illegal under Polish law.

Where do we register our marriages? This was former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh's poser to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday.

Sikh Nishkam Society of Australia announces that the wonderful seva and effort they made in having the Kirpan passed in the Australian state of Queensland have borne fruit.

As the Senate prepares for a final vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, battles from the early days of the war on terror threaten to derail a $662 billion defense authorization bill and bring a presidential veto.

The Court Case against Komandent Glowny of the Polish Border Guard saw CCTV footage. Court review of the footage shows that Sikhs passing through the checks follow all pre-checkin procedures - yet the Border Guards still harass Sikhs...

"The appointment of Mr Rabinder Singh QC, a talented and highly respected barrister, to the High Court, represents a real landmark in the drive to create a more diverse judiciary which continues to attract the highest quality candidates."

LONDON 2012 organizers have insisted they will not ban ceremonial daggers, carried as articles of faith, at next year's Olympics.

"For us, this is no more a safety issue as it has already been approved in British Columbia, Manitoba, some states in the U.S. and also in England," said Baljit Singh Ghuman, chair of the CSA. "This is more a human rights issue."

The right to freedom of religion has been core to the Sikh belief since the very dawn of our faith. Sikhs pride themselves in protecting the right to religious freedom for all people,... It is unfortunate that the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new law that discriminates against minority religions and infringes on European and international human rights standards.

“People of varying religious beliefs should be able to attend council meetings, or any other legislative sessions, without feeling marginalized … given the dominance of Christian congregations in almost all corners of the country, a rotating guest list is going to result more often than not in Christian prayer …

The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities, but left a loophole that might let religious butchering continue. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party, the first such group in Europe to win seats in a national parliament, passed the lower house of parliament by 116 votes to 30.

Over the weekend of June 3-5, Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) staff presented eight events in Ontario and Virginia to commemorate significance of the attacks of 1984 to Sikhs, and to bring Sikh communities together in celebration of their linguistic and cultural heritage, and their future.

"After an extensive review of all laws and policies pertaining to this issue, we have developed an accommodation plan that will address the situation. While our school district is committed to providing a safe learning environment for all of our students, we must also balance the rights of students to express and practice their religion."

At issue in the case is whether the New York City Transit Authority (TA) can force Sikh and Muslim workers to brand their religious headdress with its logo. The TA cites security concerns post 9/11 as the reason for the policy.

For more than 100 days Indian security officers have killed more than 100 Kashmiri civilians. The Indian government has seemed paralyzed, or even indifferent, as this disputed Himalayan region has plunged into one of the gravest crises of its tortured history.

The chargesheet against Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case citing sufficient evidence to proceed against him was prepared but never brought before a judge to seek his prosecution.

Muslim leaders concur that Islam does not require a woman to hide her face. However, they have voiced concerns that a law forbidding them to do so would stigmatize the French Muslim population, which at an estimated 5 million is the largest in western Europe.

The US court issued a certificate of default against Indian Minister Kamal Nath because, despite publicly acknowledging to have received the court summons on April 6, he ignored the summons and decided not to contest the allegation of leading the mobs that killed Sikhs in '84 riots

Whether you agree with women wearing full burqas is not the point. The point is that the government of France is targeting Muslim women and criminalizing them for the way they practice their faith, all in the name of gender equality.