London: A Sikh bus driver in Finland is fighting for his right to wear a turban while at work. Gill Sukhdarshan Singh, who works at the Veolia bus company at Vantaa near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, is trying to set a precedent by making the authorities allow him to wear a turban at work, a Finnish public broadcasting company reported on Tuesday.
"I have a right to my turban, and I am a Sikh also," the report quoted Singh as saying.
"I believe it is no problem to any other religions, we do not disturb any other religions, we only believe in our own religion."
Singh was among the first Sikhs to move to that Nordic country in the 1980s. After a visit to the Indian state of Punjab in December, 2012, he decided to wear a turban while at work....
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11:37 PM, Feb 22, 2013
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The victim is a Finland national and had gone to a discotheque. ...
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