US hate crime: 25-year-old Sikh cab driver attacked, turban forcefully taken off

In an alleged hate crime, a 25-year old Sikh cab driver was assaulted by four drunken passengers, who hurled racial slurs at him and knocked off his turban. The incident, reported by New York Daily News, occurred early Sunday morning, just hours after thousands of Sikhs gathered at Times Square to mark



'Turban day', an event organised by a Sikh group on the eve of Vaisakhi. According to the report, the cab driver Harkirat Singh, an immigrant from Punjab who moved to US three years ago, picked up three men and a women from Madison Square Garden, who wished to be dropped at a location in Bronx.