Britain to lift turban ban at high-risk workplaces

Amrik Singh, chairman of the Sikh Federation UK, claimed the move could be a “sweetener” to deal with the fallout of the allegations, which are being probed by Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood on the instructions of British Prime Minister David Cameron.

“There's an old political saying that ‘timing is everything' in politics. This long overdue closure of a loophole in employment law is welcome, yet it will do little to assuage the great concern that the government of 2014 may refuse to reveal the truth about the government of 1984,” he said.

The Sikh Council UK has organised a series of meetings in prominent Sikh-inhabited areas like Southall, Ilford, Wolver Hampton and Leeds over the weekend to update the community on the recent disclosures, said a statement from the organisation.

Noting that the letters released by the National Archives were dated several months before Operation Bluestar, the Sikh Council UK said: “The community wants to know what else were the UK government saying and doing over all that time.”