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| | QUEENS DISTRICT ATTORNEY REPORTS |
 | | QUEENS D.A. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that five men have been indicted by a Queens Grand Jury on hate crime charges in the vicious bias-related assault last month on a Sikh man in Richmond Hill, Queens who was punched, kicked and beaten into unconsciousness. |
 | | in the vicinity of 101st Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in Richmond Hill, Queens the defendants taunted Rajinder Singh Khalsa, 50, and a companion, Gurcharan Singh, 51, both wearing turbans required by the Sikh religion, by calling the turbans “dirty curtains” and demanded that the Sikh complainants remove them from their heads. |
 | | The District Attorney said that the indictment also alleges that Rajinder Singh Khalsa was repeatedly punched in the face, knocked to the ground and kicked and then lost consciousness and was later treated at a hospital for multiple contusions, abrasions, swelling and substantial pain to his eye and face. |
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