 The Nihal Show on the BBC Asian Network discussed the issue and debated the merits of the grooming claims in September 2013.In 2007 a Sikh girl's family claimed that she had been forcibly converted to Islam, and they received a police guard after being attacked by an armed gang.In response to these news stories, an open letter to Sir Ian Blair, signed by ten academics, argued that claims that Hindu and Sikh girls were being forcefully converted were "part of an arsenal of myths propagated by right-wing Hindu supremacist organisations in India".