Security asked me to remove a tiny kirpan from my neck ... (five articles of Sikh faith), especially the necklace with a small-sized kirpan. HT could not independently verify the authenticity ...

SIMRAN: Kachera is long shortsworn under the clothes for modesty. And Kirpan is a very small sword. Kirpan symbolises that we defendpeople and we protect people. We never use it in a bad way.

Sikh students in New South Wales schools to be allowed to carry a ‘kirpan’ (an article of the Sikh faith) on their person under a set of conditions mutually agreed upon by the government ...

She claimed the ban was discriminatory, as it prevented her and fellow Sikhs from carrying the small sword, known as a kirpan. Before last week, carrying knives in schools and public places was ...