{"id":2540,"date":"2007-05-04T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/stabbing-link-to-smethwick-temple-police-say\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:48:28","slug":"stabbing-link-to-smethwick-temple-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/stabbing-link-to-smethwick-temple-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Stabbing link to Smethwick temple, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>THE STABBING of a man at Birmingham\u2019s Vaisakhi celebrations last month was linked to the recent elections at a local temple, police have said.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 44-year-old was stabbed three times in the chest at the Vaisakhi Mela celebrations in Birmingham\u2019s Handsworth Park on 22 April. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The normally peaceful event was brought to an abrupt end when fighting broke out. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detectives investigating the stabbing say the issue is about &#8220;power and control&#8221; at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in nearby Smethwick.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The stabbed man is believed to be a former president at the temple. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Four men have already been charged with attempted murder over the incident. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ch Supt Andrew Jenkins said: &#8220;Our experience of Vaisakhi is they tend to be quite peaceful events albeit with an awful lot of people there. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I think it would not be unreasonable to assume that this stabbing was pretty much directly related to the forthcoming election at the temple. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It is an issue about power and control at the temple.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Amandeep Singh, 31, of Walsall, Avtar Singh Thandi, 28, of Birmingham, a 17-year-old from Smethwick, and a 59-year-old man, from Oldbury have already been charged in relation to the incident. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE STABBING of a man at Birmingham\u2019s Vaisakhi celebrations last month was linked to the recent elections at a local temple, police have said. &#13; The 44-year-old was stabbed three times in the chest at the Vaisakhi Mela celebrations in Birmingham\u2019s Handsworth Park on 22 April. &#13; The normally peaceful event was brought to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}