Srinagar, April 1 -- A Special Anti-Corruption Court in Pulwama on Tuesday convicted five persons, including former Education department officials and a beneficiary woman, in a nearly three-decades-old case involving a "fraudulent" appointment of a teacher, sentencing them to up to five years of imprisonment.

The case (FIR No. 110/1998), originally registered by the Vigilance Organisation Kashmir-now the Anti-Corruption Bureau-pertained to the illegal entry of a woman into the Education department through forged documents and a well-planned criminal conspiracy involving insiders.

Delivering the judgment, Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Dr Noor Mohammad Mir, held that the prosecution had established its case beyond reasonable doubt, obser...