VIJAYAWADA: A Nigerian was convicted and penalised by the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court in two different cases. The accused Mohammad Thohid and Zia-ul-Hussain from Uttar Pradesh and Adigum Babatunde Kamal from Nigeria were found guilty of duping `4.5 lakh from a person, by posing as Income Tax officials.
First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P Bala Venkata Koteswara Rao imposed a fine of `60,000 or nine-months imprisonment to Mohammad Thohid and Zia-ul-Hussain and a fine of `25,000 and four months of imprisonment to Kamal from Nigeria as he entered the country with fake visa.