Several Sikh, Hindu and South Asian rights groups have asked the United States justice department to probe the "discriminatory" surveillance of Muslims by the New York police department, saying such religious profiling unfairly "stigmatises" the community members and "breeds distrust".
These rights groups, among the nearly 120 advocacy groups, in a 12-page letter to the Civil Rights Division of the justice department, have sought the department's 'prompt investigation' into the NYPD's 'discriminatory surveillance' of American Muslim communities.
