A Shillong bench of the court, headed by Justice T Vaiphei, yesterday convicted the then North Eastern Hill University finance officer Stetnel Roy, who died in 2003, in a case related to corruption in the purchase and supply of damp-proof cement for construction of buildings at NEHU.
The court also held the then assistant finance officer WMR Wahlang guilty of corruption, while it increased the jail term of then chief engineer (civil) DP Sharma from one year to five years.
The materials were purchased at an exorbitant rate of Rs 42.75 against the prevailing rate of Rs 4.5 per kg and the water-proofing compound was supplied in excess of Rs 61 lakh, CBI counsel V K Jindal told PTI.
In 1999, a court had sentenced Sharma to a year of imprisonment, and had acquitted other officers and suppliers.
The CBI had challenged the trial court judgement in the Gauhati High Court.