Rudrapur, Nov. 4 -- The sessions court of Champawat on Monday sentenced a man from Gujarat to five years of imprisonment for allegedly duping a man from the state to travel to Bangkok in Thailand on the pretext of a job before holding him hostage and trying to extort a ransom worth $2,200 from his family. Government counsel KS Rana said the accused, Jaideep Ramji Tukariya alias Jay Joshi, was arrested in Porbandar on September 2024 after a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code was registered against him and Rahul Kumar Upadhyaya from Khatima district for luring Lalit Singh Saun from Champawat to Bangkok for a job before kidnapping, harassing him and demanding the ransom from his family. Joshi is currently imprisoned in Pithoragarh, while Upadhyaya is still absconding. Lalit Saun returned to India in August 2024 with the help of the Indian Embassy in Bangkok. The court of sessions judge Anuj Kumar Sangal sentenced Jay Joshi to spend five years in jail and slapped a penalty of Rs.37,000 on him. He was produced in the court through video conferencing, said Rana....