Revaluation scam convict Sunil Mishra surrenders in Nagpur

Nagpur, Jan 19 (UNI) Sunil Mishra, convicted recently by a special court in a revaluation scandal dating back to 1995, surrendered before the court here today.

Mishra was lodged in the Central Jail shortly after his surrender.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mishra was removed from the post of chairman of the Ad Hoc Board for Mass Communication of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj (RTM) Nagpur University as per a provision in the law that no person convicted of moral turpitude could be a member of any body of the university.

Mishra is the director of the city-based Central India Institute of Mass Communication (CIIMC), which runs the Bachelor of Mass Communication (BMC) course of RTM Nagpur University besides bachelor's and master's courses in journalism of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism of Bhopal.

Mishra was convicted on January 10 vide sections 420, 468, 471 and 120 (B) of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to 12 years and 6 months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and fined Rs 42,000 for getting the revaluation records tampered for improving his score in a subject of LLB Part I examination of 1995, in which he had failed.

Mishra had been absconding since then and the court had issued an arrest warrant against him.

UNI