A US court has allowed wealthy India-born businessman Mahender Sabhnani, who along with his spouse was convicted of “modern day slavery”, to remain in home detention until his sentencing on March 28 but revoked the bail of his Indonesia-born wife.Judge Arthur Spatt said he had taken the decision as Varsha was charged with torturing the two Indonesian women they had employed as housekeepers and Mahender was accused of allowing it to happen.The couple were released on $4.5 million bail with strict conditions under which their over a million dollar mansion was turned into a temporary jail and Sabhnanis were paying 10,000 dollars per day for security, which kept eye on them to ensure that they do not escape.Varsha made a futile plea to judge to allow her to remain on bail and her four children sobbed.One of the couple’s daughters, Dakshina, collapsed in the court. She had collapsed on Monday also when the jury gave the guilty verdict. The couple face 20 years in prison.After a three-week trial, a jury had convicted the multi-millionaire couple, who have world-wide perfume business, on all 12 charges brought against them by the prosecutors — including forced labour, involuntary servitude and harbouring illegal aliens.
