A federal appeals court has ruled that three Sikh men should be allowed to go through US Marine Corps recruit training with their turbans and beards intact. Milaap Singh Chahal, Jaskirat Singh and ...

Kapurthala, July 4. The Sessions Court of Kapurthala on Monday sentenced three persons to life imprisonment for kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Jaskirat Singh in a six-year-old case.

Now a private first class, Singh, 21, has become the first Marine known to have made it through boot camp with his Sikh articles of faith, including unshorn hair and a turban, beard and steel ...

Jaskirat Singh (third from right) stands in formation with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, at a graduation ceremony at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Aug. 11, 2023.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Sukhbir Singh Toor (left), and recruits Aekash Singh (center), and Jaskirat Singh (right) at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in October when their appeal was heard.

According to the police, Kapurthala-based Jaskirat Singh has studied till class 12 and his father is a farmer. Singh was not found to be inebriated and his family claims he is mentally unstable.

Milaap Singh Chahal at D.C. Circuit Court for oral argument on Oct. 11, 2022. (The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty) Even as two Sikh men are set to ship out to Marine boot camp with their ...

Pfc. Jaskirat Singh, third from the right, marches with the Marine Corps’ Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, at a graduation ceremony Aug. 11, 2023, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San ...

Pfc. Jaskirat Singh stood at attention -- while wearing a turban, beard and unshorn hair -- as he listened to the national anthem play on the parade deck at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

In April 2022, Jaskirat Singh, Milaap Singh Chahal and Aekash Singh filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Marine Corps’ ban on articles of faith in boot camp. Sikh men traditionally all ...