Close X
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
ADVT 
International

Attacker Of Elderly Sikh-American Man Inderjit Singh Mukker Charged With Hate Crime

Darpan News Desk IANS, 16 Sep, 2015 01:55 PM
  • Attacker Of Elderly Sikh-American Man Inderjit Singh Mukker Charged With Hate Crime
A teenager, who hospitalised a Sikh-American in a racially motivated attack last week, has been charged with hate crime in addition to previous felony charges, a media report said.
 
DuPage county state Attorney on Tuesday said the teen would be charged for one count of hate crime and a Class four felony for hitting Inderjeet Singh Mukker, Chicago Tribune reported.
 
The Sikh Coalition, an organisation that works for civil and human rights for all people, provided "additional evidence and information that showed hatred to be the primary motivation behind the crime" in a two-hour meeting on Monday.
 
"For the Sikh-American community, a formal hate crime charge was never about a harsher penalty, but instead prosecuting the crime for what it was," the Sikh coalition's legal director, Harsimran Kaur, was quoted as saying.
 
"We cannot combat the problem of hatred against minority communities in America unless our elected officials and government agencies acknowledge that the problem exists," she said.
 
On September 9, the teen punched and dubbed 53-year-old Mukker "Terrorist!" and "Bin Laden!" while he was on his way to a grocery store.
 
Mukker was later taken to a hospital and was treated for a fractured cheekbone, bruising and blood loss.
 
The police later arrested the teenager, believed to be 17 years of age, who was not named in the statement.
 
The state's attorney's office said the teenager resisted and punched a police officer when the police tried to arrest him from his house.

MORE International ARTICLES

Snow cover on Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly: NASA

Snow cover on Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly: NASA
In an alarming revelation, NASA has confirmed that the snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years - by about a third in the western...

Snow cover on Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly: NASA

Major quake jolts Iranian city

Major quake jolts Iranian city
According to official, the aftershocks could be felt in neighbouring provinces of Lorestan, Khuzestan and Markazi....

Major quake jolts Iranian city

Missouri Shooting Case: Holder Orders Federal Autopsy, Citing 'Extraordinary Circumstances'

Missouri Shooting Case: Holder Orders Federal Autopsy, Citing 'Extraordinary Circumstances'
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on the body of a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of rancorous and sometimes violent protests in suburban St. Louis.

Missouri Shooting Case: Holder Orders Federal Autopsy, Citing 'Extraordinary Circumstances'

Prosecutor Says 2 Sisters Sexually Abused After Abduction From New York Farm Stand

Prosecutor Says 2 Sisters Sexually Abused After Abduction From New York Farm Stand
CANTON, N.Y. - Two young sisters were sexually abused after their abduction from a roadside farm stand in New York state, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Prosecutor Says 2 Sisters Sexually Abused After Abduction From New York Farm Stand

Missouri Governor Declares State Of Emergency, Curfew In St. Louis Suburb Where Teen Killed

Missouri Governor Declares State Of Emergency, Curfew In St. Louis Suburb Where Teen Killed
FERGUSON, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Saturday in a St. Louis suburb where police and protesters have clashed in the week since a black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer.

Missouri Governor Declares State Of Emergency, Curfew In St. Louis Suburb Where Teen Killed

Boat Carrying Foreign Tourists Sinks In Central Indonesia; 15 Missing, 10 Rescued

Boat Carrying Foreign Tourists Sinks In Central Indonesia; 15 Missing, 10 Rescued
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat carrying foreign tourists sank in central Indonesia, leaving 15 people missing, officials said Sunday.

Boat Carrying Foreign Tourists Sinks In Central Indonesia; 15 Missing, 10 Rescued