NDTV Correspondent
Saturday, January 5, 2008 (New Delhi)
Can India intervene in the judicial process of another country, is a question many are asking.
The speculation follows Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi's statement on Friday, where he said he would persuade the external affairs ministry to take up the case of New York-based fashion designer Anand Jon.
Jon has been charged with committing multiple sexual offences.
Ravi said the number of complaints cropping up against Jon in New York and Florida seemed to suggest the designer was ''framed''.
When NDTV tried to speak to the minister, he was unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, Jon's mother is in Delhi, hoping to ask External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to intervene on her son's behalf, but the Indian government is unlikely to agree.
This is not the first time Ravi has tried to help Jon. Last year, when Jon's family had approached the minister, he had asked Indian diplomats in the US to provide consular help to the fashion designer.
Anand Jon has been held in detention in Los Angeles since June 2007 after about 30 women in various American cities charged him with rape and molestation.
(Appeared in NDTV.com)
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