Excepción de puntero nulo al recuperar objeto JSON

Soy nuevo en JSON. estoy usandohttp://pnrapi.appspot.com/ para obtener el estado de un tren en particular utilizando JSON. Pero al intentar analizar el objeto recibido, siempre obtengo una excepción de puntero nulo. Por favor ayuda.

Aquí está mi código.

public class PNRStatusActivity extends Activity {
    private static final String TAG_CONTACTS = "contacts";
    static InputStream is = null;
    JSONObject jObj = null;
    static String json = "";
    JSONArray contacts = null;
    private static String url = "http://pnrapi.appspot.com/4051234567";
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        // Creating JSON Parser instance
        JSONObject jon=getJSONFromUrl(url);

        try {
            // Storing each json item in variable
            String id = jon.getString("status");
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), id, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    //function to get JSON Object
    public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url) {

        // Making HTTP request
        try {
            // defaultHttpClient
            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);

            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            is = httpEntity.getContent();           

        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        try {
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = null;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line + "n");
            }
            is.close();
            json = sb.toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
        }

        // try parse the string to a JSON object
        try {
            jObj = new JSONObject(json);
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
        }

        // return JSON String
        return jObj;
    }
}

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