PATIALA: A representative of France-based United Sikhs Forum, who is contesting a case against France government's decision to ban turbans, said that he was not getting adequate support from Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the supreme body of the Sikhs.

NEW DELHI: For Gurdial Singh and his wife Surjeet Kaur, a Sikh couple from France, life was wonderful in their adopted country till the French government decided to ban the wearing of turbans in schools. That was in 2004, and the Sikh couple from Bobigny near Paris was forced to withdraw their 14-year-old son Jasbir Singh from the Louis Mission School. Since then, the couple and others from their community have been fighting for lifting the ban, something that ‘does not go well with French ethos and values’.

Sikhs in France doing Gatka.

Chamonix (France), November 3
Thirty illegal Indian immigrants travelling in "inhuman conditions" were stopped while crossing the French Alps in a small truck,the police said.

"They were packed together, standing up, in inhuman conditions in an area of less than six square metres. It was horrible," Michel Drezen, head of the border police in France's Haute-Savoie region, said yesterday.