In a landmark case in September 2008, a Brisbane private school was forced to back down on a strict uniform policy that would have forced a Sikh boy to cut his hair and remove his turban.

a 15-year-old Sikh boy who is scouted for an admission trial at Mumbai's prestigious Bombay International School of Swimming.

and ordered to cut his hair, remove his turban and shave his beard. The 23-year-old devout Sikh, raised in Kampung Pandan, Kuala Lumpur, refused to exchange one tradition for another. He argued ...