New Yorker held for mowing down Sikh
Wednesday, 20/08/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140820/punjab.htm#22
New York : A 55-year-old man has been arrested on charges that he called a Sikh man a "terrorist" and mowing him down with his pick-up truck, in an apparent hate crime.
The police in Queens arrested Joseph Caleca of Setauket in Suffolk County and charged him with attempted murder and hate crime, ABC 7 News reported.
Caleca had attacked 29-year-old Sandeep Singh, who was seriously injured when he was hit by the pick-up truck and dragged nearly 30 feet on a public street in Queens following an argument on July 30. Caleca had called Sandeep a "terrorist" who should "go back to your country."
Investigators made the arrest after gathering information on vehicles that were in the area at the time of the incident. Sandeep was treated at Jamaica Hospital for abdominal and back injuries. Just days after the attack on Sandeep, another Sikh man Jaspreet Singh Batra, a medical scientist, and his mother were attacked by a group of teenagers and called “Osama Bin Laden” in an apparent hate crime, sparking outrage and prompting the Sikh community to demand that violence against them must end.
Rights group Sikh Coalition has called for a hate crime investigation into the incident.
