Bangle Dilemma

A 14-year-old girl who was excluded from her school for wearing a Sikh religious bangle is this week taking her case to the High Court. Sarika Singh has been excluded from the school in South Wales since 5 November 2007, when she refused to remove the bangle. The school’s uniform policy bans the wearing of any jewellery other than a wrist watch and plain ear studs. Singh will argue that Aberdare Girls’ School breached the Race Relations Act 1976, the Equality Act 2006, and the Human Rights Act 1998, as well as a 25-year-old law lords’ decision allowing Sikh children to wear items representing their faith, including turbans, to school.