Anna Fairclough: The lessons all schools need to learn from this judgment The Independent Wednesday, 30 July 2008 Sarika Watkins-Singh, a 14- year-old Welsh-Punjabi Sikh, was forbidden from wearing her kara, a 5mm-wide plain steel bangle, to her state school. Because of her decision to continue wearing it, she was taught in complete segregation from other pupils for almost two months, banned from speaking to friends at school and even escorted to the toilet by a teacher, who waited outside. by Anna Fairclough, Liberty's legal officer, represented the Singhs