Three persons, including an autorickshaw driver, were sentenced to jail for kidnapping, cheating and outraging the modesty of a Japanese tourist in Gaya in March.
Additional district and sessions judge A N Rai sentenced an 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 in Gaya 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.
Sushita had returned to Varanasi on March 17 and got in touch with superintendent of police M R Naik on whose advice she returned to Gaya the next day and filed an FIR.
The three accused were arrested the same day and the charge sheet against them was submitted on March 19 for kidnapping, outraging the modesty of a woman and cheating.
While the judge handed down six years imprisonment to Mohid and a fine of Rs 1000, Raja got three-and-a-half-years in jail and fine of the same amount and Shamim was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fine of Rs 500.
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