Bias Probed In Attack On Sikh Boy
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A Sikh high school student was allegedly attacked yesterday by two other students, who ripped off his turban and cut his hair in the bathroom of their Queens school, police said.
Sikh men wear their hair long and wrapped in a turban as a religious practice. Police arrested the two students and are investigating the incident to determine whether to charge them with a bias crime.
The three students, all male, were involved in a verbal dispute when the incident occurred, police said.
A Department of Education spokeswoman, Dina Paul Parks, said the school, Newtown High School in Elmhurst, would seek to suspend the two students for at least 30 days.
