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Sikhs in NZ offended by claim that a widow can't remarry
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The Hindustan Times
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June 13, 2008
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Auckland, June 13 -- The Sikh community here has been offended by claims being made that a widow can't remarry. A community source, on the condition of anonymity, said that the assertion that a member of the Sikh community can't remarry was an old-fashioned myth.
The controversy arose over the widow of one Navtej Singh, who was killed a couple of days ago in Auckland. A section of the Sikh community had said that she can't remarry.
"This has nothing to do with reality, Sikhs have always allowed remarriage," the stuff.co.nz quoted the unnamed source as saying.
Singh's widow Harjinder Kaur has been left with her three ...