A special CBI court today convicted two former Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) scientists in a corruption case related to giving a forensic opinion about an accused.
"The Special Judge for CBI cases convicted Dr S C Mittal, the then Principal scientific officer and Head of Division (documents), and V K Khanna, the then Principal Scientific Officer, both of Central Forensic Science Laboratory, CBI, New Delhi and Ramesh Sharma, a resident of Delhi, in a corruption case," a CBI spokesperson said.
The case dates back to 2005 when Mittal, Khanna and Sharma allegedly "entered into a criminal conspiracy to give undue advantage to Sharma. In pursuance of the criminal conspiracy, both the CFSL officials abused their official position as public servants and framed a report giving a wrong opinion as experts and forwarded the said report to additional SHO, Defence Colony police station for submission in the court in order to favour Sharma."
The agency later filed a chargesheet against the trio under various sections of IPC including conspiracy charges.
The quantum of sentence in this case will be pronounced on October 11.
