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Sanjana Jon seeks PM’s intervention

MUMBAI: Sanjana Jon, sister of NRI fashion designer Anand Jon jailed in Los Angeles, has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to free her brother, alleging human rights violation and racial discrimination by the U.S. authorities.

Anand Jon was arrested on March 6 last for 40 alleged crimes, including rape, sexual abuse and criminal assaults from November 2002 to September 2006 in different American States, she told reporters at the office of her lawyer Majeed Memon. She said that he was being demonised because of his success in the American fashion industry. “Anand is kept in solitary confinement and he is also chained; it is a ploy to defame him as he was earning fame and fortune.”

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