Sikh student wearing kirpan not allowed on bus in US
Friday, 18/10/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131018/punjab.htm#9
New York : A Sikh student in the US was not allowed to board a bus because he was wearing a kirpan. Harsimran Singh, a student of the University of California in Davis, said he was not allowed to board an Amtrak bus on Saturday because the driver was against him for wearing the kirpan.
Harsimran said he had travelled for the last two years with the kirpan and had not faced any issues till the incident last Saturday, CBS News reported yesterday.
"They always wish me safe travel and they continue with their business... they didn't see me as a potential threat," he said.
Bus driver Al Smithee was quoted as saying: " I'm doing 70 miles an hour down the freeway, and he slits my throat, and I crash and wreck, and kill five other people or oncoming traffic."
Smithee called the police. Harsimran was then told that he could board the bus if he stowed the kirpan. But Harsimran refused to do so and decided against the trip he had planned to visit his family.
