Ontario Sikh challenges motorcycle helmet law
Ontario’s law requiring helmets for motorcyclists is being challenged by a Canadian-Indian Thirty Nine years old Sikh Bajendra Badesha living in northwest of Toronto, tribune reported.
Badesha who wears a turban, says he should be permitted to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Badesha said, “We want an exemption for our religion, we can’t put a helmet on turban”.
The Ontario Human Rights Commision supports Bajendra Badesha & his lawyer Scott Hutchison, told the court that the law which makes helmets necessary is an “indirectly discriminatory”.
Badesha, who runs his own second-hand vechiles business, said “I know it that wearing a helmet is for safety, but people die in car accidents all the time”.
There are exceptions to motorcycle helmet laws for devout Sikhs in British Columbia, Manitoba, the UK & Northern Ireland, the court heard. The province is expected to respond to the commission’s arguments soon.
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