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Nihang Sikh assaults bike driver who refused him a elevate. When will the regulation and customary sense catch up?

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In a surprising incident, a Nihang Sikh attacked a bike-borne man in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandeali together with his sword upon being refused a elevate to Sri Anandpur Sahib in Punjab. The Nihang Sikh stopped the bike-rider with a gesture, after which forcefully sat on the pillion seat. He then requested the rider to drop him at Sri Anandpur Sahib. Upon being informed that Anandpur Sahib was not the rider’s vacation spot, the Nihang turned livid and bought off the bike. He then began attacking the person with a stick. Before the sufferer may realise it, the Nihang used his sword on him, leading to 4 fingers of the person being minimize.The Nihang then fled into the jungle. Bystanders and people current on the scene chased him down, and after finding him, have been attacked by the Nihang as effectively. He additionally attacked one other individual, Dhaniram (64), leading to extreme accidents to the pinnacle of the second sufferer. Somehow, the Nihang was captured and is presently underneath arrest after having been charged with IPC part 307.The victims –Balvir and Dhaniram have been taken to Anandpur Sahib for remedy. Thankfully, Balvir’s fingers have been reattached and Dhaniram too has acquired stitches on the pinnacle. The incident serves as one more testimony of how some fringe Sikhs are besmirching the identify of a complete group with their senseless acts of violence. In latest instances, the Republic Day violence, chopping off the hand of a Punjab police officer and the violence in opposition to police at Nanded has revealed how some hot-headed Sikhs are a hazard to unarmed residents.In Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar in 2019, a Sikh tempo driver had caught the attention of the media as he brandished his sword and threatened a Delhi police officer. Such Sikhs convey disgrace upon their group through the use of their kirpans as deadly weapons to assault harmless people. As defined earlier, they should relax and eliminate the macho-man syndrome, which drives them to unleash their kirpans on the drop of a hat. Sikhs should cease misusing the liberty accorded to them of carrying weapons, notably kirpans. By indiscriminately attacking harmless people, such fringe people from throughout the group are doing themselves no good and solely making life tougher for fellow Sikhs. They should realise that they’re contributing to folks starting to really feel unsafe amongst Sikhs, from feeling secure round them. If a day reminiscent of that comes, it will certainly be essentially the most shameful one.