A 20-year-old Sikh-American student has won a significant legal battle in the US with a court allowing him to enrol in an army programme without removing his articles of faith like the beard and turban.
US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday ruled in favour of <g data-gr-id="9">Iknoor</g> Singh, a student at Long Island- based?Hofstra University, to enrol in US Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) programme without shaving his beard, cutting his hair or removing his turban. Singh, born and raised in the Queens in New York, had previously been denied the right to enrol in his college’s ROTC programme on account of his religious articles of faith.