Thaindian News

By Rick Roy

Sept 1 (IBNS) Celebrity fashion designer Indian American Anand Jon’s sister and their family lawyer today alleged that he has been victimized and facts have been overlooked during the hearing of the case.

His family was reacting with dismay to the 59-year sentence handed over to Jon by a US court for sexually assaulting aspiring models.

Shashi Jon, the designer’s mother, said: He is not capable of doing anything like this.This was beyond my belief that Anand has been taken in and arrested on charges of molestation.

Defending 35-year-old Anand, his sister Sanjana said: The fact that Anand is an Indian citizen and that he is being victimised is completely overlooked. So there is nobody questioning anything that we are facing there. Every piece of evidence that is medical shows that nothing ever happened. There is no medical evidence that showed that anything ever happened.

Majid Memon, their family’s lawyer, said: It is very sad that this young boy, a celebrity from India, has to be left like this and being now convicted and sentenced to suffer for the whole of his life. All the girls alleging rape or molestation don’t have a scratch on their body to suggest that there was any resistance or any violence by the accused.

Moreover, the complaints have been lodged weeks and even months after the incidents. So definitely this is a very dubious kind of a charge and unfortunately Anand was left alone and there was hardly any help.