London-(Reuters)A prominent Sikh group has called on the home secretary to extend her grooming gangs inquiry claiming that non-Muslim girls have been considered “fair game” by some perpetrators. The Network of Sikh Organizations UK (NSO) has written to Yvette Cooper urging her to allow the review to examine race and religion as “contributing factors in these terrible crimes”.The network, whose director is Lord Singh of Wimbledon, a well-known Sikh figure who represents the community at major events including royal weddings, wrote: “Although much of the focus on victims has rightly been those from vulnerable white working-class communities, we want to highlight how this stain on British society has also long impacted the Sikh and Hindu community too.”This month, after weeks of pressure, Cooper resisted calls for a national statutory inquiry but announced a series of government-backed local grooming inquiries and a separate three-month national audit into rape gangs.She appointed Baroness Casey of Blackstock to carry out a “rapid” assessment of the scale and nature of gang-based exploitation, as well as its “cultural and societal drivers”.