Around 200 Sikhs surrounded a Hounslow council flat Sunday night, alleging an Afghan man was grooming a 16-year-old Sikh girl. Protesters confronted the man, accusing him of manipulation, while a neighbor reported seeing underage girls at the flat over years. Police intervened, taking the man away and reuniting the girl with her family.

The 17-year-old girl was an athletics trainee studying in Class 12, while the other one was a kabaddi player and a Class 10 student.

The ED told the Supreme Court that there is no democracy in West Bengal, only mob rule, as it accused Mamata Banerjee of obstructing I-PAC raids.