A boy in Cambridgeshire has handed in a total of 24 knives during a weapons amnesty in the area. The boy contacted ...

Former Senior Breaking News Editor A student at the University of North Carolina Charlotte was handcuffed for wearing a kirpan—a symbolic knife that is one of five articles of the Sikh faith ...

and a kirpan (resembling a knife or sword). The university's news release said that knives or other edged instruments are prohibited on campus, but that they will “use this as a learning ...

But after speaking to the student they soon removed the handcuffs as the knife was in fact a kirpan - an article of faith in Sikhism. The Sikh Coalition, which defends its members civil rights ...

Police eventually determined that the knife was in fact a kirpan, one of five articles of faith central to Sikh expression. Together, those five items, which Sikhs refer to as “the 5 Ks,” show ...

The student tells the cop he cannot take his religious object, known as kirpan, hanging off a cross ... policy prohibit the possession of a knife or other edged instruments on campus, but we ...

The caller had mistaken a religious item, a kirpan, for a knife, the university said in a statement. The student was detained in the school's student union as officers retrieve it. The University ...

He used a Sikh knife, also known as a kirpan, to stab a 16-year-old student twice in the stomach during a fight at Glenwood High School in Sydney's northwest on May 6, 2021. District Court Judge ...

and a kirpan (resembling a knife or sword). The policy changes went into effect nearly two months after the school issued an apology and a second update was posted to announce additional actions ...

The offender, who is now 16, pleaded guilty to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm after he used a Sikh knife, known as a kirpan, to stab another student twice in the chest and back during a ...