Gaya, July 08: Three persons, including an autorickshaw driver, were sentenced to jail for kidnapping, cheating and outraging the modesty of a Japanese tourist here in March. Additional district and sessions judge A N Rai sentenced auto driver Mohd Mohid alias Kaka and his two accomplices Raja and Shamim for kidnapping and keeping in illegal confinement Yoko Maitu Sushita who had arrived at the railway station here from Varanasi on March 15.
Mohid, posing as a guide, had taken her to his residence in Adgilla locality of the pilgrim town where he had kept her in illegal confinement for two days. The trio had criminally assaulted her and robbed her of Rs 35,000 before she managed to give them the slip.
While the judge handed down six years imprisonment to Mohid and slapped a fine of Rs 1000, Raja got three and half years in jail and a fine of the same amount and Shamim was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fine of Rs 500. PTI COR SK KK.
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