A 21-year-old deportee, Davinder Singh, earlier alleged that officials discarded the turbans of Sikh immigrants, throwing them into trash bins when they were detained by US security officials after crossing the border illegally and subsequently sent to a detention centre. “It was deeply painful to see turbans being tossed away like garbage,” he had said.Singh had said they were only given a small packet of chips and a packet of juice five times a day. Apart from that, they received a roll of half-cooked bread, half-cooked rice, sweet corn, and cucumber. Since Davinder is a vegetarian, he could not eat beef.Sources said that some 24 Sikh deportees were made to remove their turbans by the US authorities before sending them back to India on a military plane. They were part of a second batch of Indians that landed at the Amritsar airport.Meanwhile, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had condemned the US authorities for being “insensitive” to the community’s religious sentiments.
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