A special court here sentenced Sunil Mishra, Chairman of the Board of Studies of Mass Communications in Nagpur’s Tukdoji Maharaj University, to twelve-and-a-half years in jail in the infamous bogus marks and revaluation scandal that had rocked the varsity twelve years ago.

Mishra was convicted of getting his marks, in the first year paper in Law of Tort in 1995, manipulated to secure a First Class, when he was actually declared failed by the first valuer. Mishra had secured just nine marks in the first evaluation. He applied for revaluation to get the marks raised to 35 with the help of then assistant registrar Yadavrao Kohchade, the mastermind of the scandal who was also convicted in a similar case recently. The manipulation continued and the actual marksheet showed his score as 69.