ABBOTTABAD, July 15: A special Anti Corruption judge, Aymon Zia, awarded 21-year jail terms each to four employees of the education department and fined them Rs35,000 each in the Mansehra education department scandal involving a Rs60 million fraud.

The money of the education department was said to have been misappropriated through fake bills of salaries, TA/DA, medical, etc. The case was registered in 1992.

Those awarded punishment include three subdivisional education officers, Mohammad Javed, Hafiz Mohammad Ilyas and Syed Arifeen Shah, and senior clerk Tariq Mehmood. The main accused, Khalid, has been declared absconder.