--- title: Australia: Sikh Man Removes Turban to Rescue a Child description: "I think anyone else would have done the same as me" canonical: https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-18T13:47:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:57.948Z og:title: Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child og:description: "I think anyone else would have done the same as me" og:url: https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child twitter:description: "I think anyone else would have done the same as me" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child by [Tara Fowler / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Tara Fowler / People Contributor May 18, 2015 1:47 PM UTC by [Tara Fowler / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Tara Fowler / People Contributor May 18, 2015 1:47 PM UTC A Sikh man broke strict religious protocol on Friday and removed his turban to help a child who’d been hit by a car outside his home in Auckland. Harman Singh, 22, saw that the 5-year-old boy’s head was bleeding and acted immediately, removing his turban despite the fact that his religion prohibits him to do so in public. “I wasn’t thinking about the turban,” Singh told [_The New Zealand Herald_](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c%5Fid=301&objectid=11449538). “I was thinking about the accident and I just thought, ‘He needs something on his head because he’s bleeding.’ That’s my job – to help.” He added: “I think anyone else would have done the same as me.” Singh’s heroic act earned him praise around the world over the weekend. “Total strangers are asking to be friends on Facebook and thousands of people have said ‘Well done,’ ” he [told](http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c%5Fid=1&objectid=11449967) the paper Saturday. “I was only doing what I had to and trying to be a decent member of the community.” The boy was taken to the hospital with life-threatening head injuries, though he was in stable condition as of Friday evening. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/sikh-man-removes-turban-save-child-hit-by-car) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ Australia: Sikh Man Removes Turban to Rescue a Child ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/"},"headline":"Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child","datePublished":"2015-05-18T13:47:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:57.948Z","description":"\"I think anyone else would have done the same as me\"","url":"https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara Fowler / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3882433/austalia-sikh-removes-turban/","name":"Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child"}}]}] ```