I have been following this on social media including X for nearly a week. It hasn’t reached the English press yet, not the nationals nor the local paper but the Indian press started to run the story. The most recent is from the generally reliable India Today who credit as their source the (considered very reliable) Sikh Press Association who ran the story yesterday. I am satisfied that there is substance to this incident, even if not every detail is yet to be confirmed. The claim that 6 men joined the girl’s controller at his flat (presumably to take advanage of the opportunity to rape the girl) are not confirmed.
Over 100 Sikhs gathered outside an apartment building in West London (UK) on Sunday evening (11.01.26), where a man believed to be in his early 40s was keeping a school-age-girl away from her family.
The incident in Hounslow has gone viral as an example of a longtime issue of vulnerable Sikh women being targeted by groomers of Islamic background. The accused man was seen being taken into a police van after hours of demonstrations, which the school-age-girl’s parents attended.
The gathering stemmed from a video exposing the alleged Hounslow-based groomer by AK Media 47, a community group which reports on Sikh issues and causes. Released on 30th December 2025, the Instagram video sees AK Media lead Jassa Singh interrogate the man about the situation, only for him to respond saying “the religion says it is OK”, whilst admitting he has a relationship with the girl he says is 16-years-old, claiming he is 35-years-old himself. The man is said to be of Afghan Muslim background. A neighbour interviewed by AK Media said police have visited the “nasty man” regarding his “disgusting” relationship with a “young girl”. She also said the girl “looks terrified”, and she has seen the alleged groomer with another “mixed-race girl who looks 12”.
Although various narratives are circulating, according to Sikh PA sources, the allegations are:
A man said to be in his early 40s and known to suspiciously “befriend” under-16s (boys and girls) in the Hounslow area began forming a relationship with a local Sikh school girl whilst she was around 13-years-old . . .the girl was persuaded to leave her family home where she lived with her parents once she reached the legal age of 16. Police have been unable to help the parents to date, as is often the case with grooming cases where the perpetrator knows how to stay on the edge of the law. Due to police inability to help, as has happened for decades, Sikh community groups take action
One local activist shared several videos of the evening demonstrations, culminating in one of the alleged groomer being taken into a police van by the London Metropolitan police.
I can’t embed any of these videos but the police van and the presence of police officers is clear.
Local police have been contacted by Sikh PA for a statement on the incident and the status of the alleged groomer. For now, the young school-age-girl is back with her family. However, mentally detaching from the groomer is known to be a much longer process, necessitating the importance of the community sevadaars (selfless servants) to protect her in the meantime, especially if police inaction continues.
Video of Sikh men ‘persuading’ the alleged groomer to open the front door and face the music. They are joined by local uniformed police officers who later escort the man into a police van. This is a powerful record of the action to retrieve the young girl. I don’t know what they chant at the end but it raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I now know that it’s the ending of prayer (and also the warcry of the Punjab Sikh Regiment) Bole So Nihal…Sat Sri Akal Shout Aloud in Ecstasy… True is the Great Timeless One
And some discussion on the stairs and outside ~ X posts from David Atherton an independent journalist from London
India Today opinion:
Reports show that vulnerable Sikh girls are often coerced into relationships that start as platonic, using tactics like “love bombing,” bullying, or manipulation.
Groomers exploit interfaith tensions to isolate victims from their families. Many cases have led to abusive relationships, forced prostitution, and, in rare instances, attempts to recruit girls into terrorist groups like the Islamic State.
I am reminded of the tensions in Leicester which bubble frequently, but which in 2013 resulted in several Sikh men being imprisoned for damage and assaults which occured at a restarurant when they tackled a grooming gang who they alleged had been using the rooms above the dining area.
This is from the late Andrew Norfolk writing in the Times on 2nd September 2013.
‘Rising tensions ’ between Muslims and Sikhs over hidden pattern of sex grooming
Outrage over a hidden pattern of sex grooming triggered a mob attack on a restaurant and fears of escalating tension between Sikh and Muslim communities.
The restaurant targeted during vigilante action in Leicester was loosely linked to the abuse of a 16-year-old Sikh girl by a group of Muslim men.
Six adults were jailed on Friday for offences against the teenager including internal trafficking, facilitating child prostitution, inciting child pornography and paying for the sexual services of a child.
Their prosecution is thought to be the first in which a sex-grooming network has been convicted of crimes against a Sikh victim. Recent trials have exposed the abuse of white girls by street-grooming rings, mostly of Pakistani origin.
The crime model is under-reported, they say, partly due to the shame felt by Sikh families whose children fall victim to grooming gangs, but also because concerns are often mistakenly dismissed by agencies as “Sikhs complaining because they don’t like their daughter having a Muslim boyfriend”.
I seem to remember similar accusations of out and out ‘racism’ cast at white English parents in the same circumstances.
Five of the six men convicted last week in Leicester were Muslim and one was Hindu. Ashish Joshi, chairman of the Sikh Media Monitoring Group, said such gangs typically targeted girls “from outside their community”. He added: “They go for white, Sikh or Hindu girls because a small sub-section of the Muslim community holds the prejudiced view that non-Muslim girls are not to be respected like girls from their own community.”
…Sikh girls speak of being groomed for abuse by Muslims. who at first posed as Sikhs to win their trust.
Anecdotally I know of a couple of cases of ‘dodgy’ kebab shop proprietors finding it safer to move house when local parents and neighbours became aware of grooming type activity. The trouble is that just moves the problem to the next town.
However I can only admire the Sikh communities robustness in dealing with a percieved threat to their children.
If this man is released without charge back into the community I suspect we will hear about it. And if he is charged, once he is in the Magistrates Court it becomes a matter of public record.
