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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Marines cannot require the recruit, Jaskirat Singh, “to shave or otherwise cut the hair on his head or shave or otherwise cut his beard” in order to enter boot camp, District Court Judge ...

Plantiffs Jaskirat Singh and Milaap Singh Chahal with Daniel Blomberg, a lawyer from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, outside a D.C. appeals court in October 2022. (The Becket Fund for ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...