NRI’S AUNT SLAMS ASSAULT, SEEKS SECURITY FOR SIKHS IN US
Saturday, 12/09/2015
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FEROZEPUR: Satwant Kaur, an aunt of Inderjit Singh Mukker, 48, who was attacked and injured in Chicago in the United States on Tuesday, while praying for the safety and earliest recovery of her nephew, condemned the attack.
She said Indian as well as the US authorities must ensure proper security of Indians, especially Sikhs, who are wrongly considered terrorists. Inderjit hails from Kotkaror Klan village under Talwandi Bhai, a rural town of Ferozepur, situated about 35 km from here.
“Inderjit after doing his postgraduation in agriculture from Guru Nanak Dev University, had gone to Chicago in 1992 and is running a departmental store. He has a permanent citizenship,” said Satwant Kaur.
“Inder, who was injured in the attack told us on the phone that he was called a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden” by the attacker,” said Satwant. “Even though he is yet in hospital but he is in high spirits” uttered Tapinder Singh, uncle of NRI Sikh, who also talked to him. “The problem of repeated attacks on Sikhs in various parts of world, presuming them to be Afghan terrorist, needed to dealt with sternly,” said Tapinder.
Inderjit, father of a son and a daughter, was on his way to a grocery store and was repeatedly cut off by a driver. He pulled over to the side of the road to let him pass but the driver instead pulled in front of his car and approached Mukker’s vehicle.
INCIDENT WIDELY CONDEMNED IN US
WASHINGTON: Several organisations and individuals have come forward to strong condemn the brutal assault, calling for hate crime charges to be brought against the perpetrator.
“To target someone on the basis of appearance, religion, race or national origin is untenable,” said the Indian-American Bar Association, Asian-American Bar Association and South Asian Bar Association of North America in a joint statement issued on Friday. The Sikh Coalition, CAIR-Chicago, South Asian American Research and Policy Institute (SAAPRI), Arab American Action Network (AAAN), and Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights also called for a full hate crime investigations.
