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NYPD is ordered to take
back Jasjit Singh Jaggi,
let him wear turban on job
New York’s Human Rights Commission has ordered the New York Police Department to reinstate as an NYPD traffic agent Jasjit Singh Jaggi, 36, and let him wear his turban while on the job. “The city commissioners ruled that the NYPD did not prove its chief argument that failure to wear the regulation white, eight-point cap would make Jaggi unrecognizable as a traffic agent and might subject him to racist remarks,” Daily News reported on July 1.
Jaggi, who quit his job in August 2002 rather than violate the tenets of Sikhism and had gone to live in Vermont, was quoted by the tabloid New York daily as saying he couldn’t wait to get his job back. He must be taken back immediately by NYPD, or fork out hundred dollars each day it violates the commission’s order. NYPD could also be fined $50,000, according to the city’s administrative code.
“The Human Rights Commission’s landmark order serves as a precedent to other Sikhs fighting city agencies for their right to wear a turban while at work,” Daily News added.
(Compiled from news dispatches by Jyotirmoy Datta)
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