Calls to ban kirpan spark backlash from British Sikh groups after murder verdict
Some calls to ban the kirpan in the UK after the murder conviction of a man using a knife he claimed to carry for religious reasons “unfairly” targeted an entire community for the actions of a criminal, British Sikh groups have cautioned. Vickrum Digwa, 23, was found guilty of fatally stabbing Henry Nowak, 18, with…