Following a tip, India Today’s undercover reporters visited the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Varanasi, headed by its deputy director Suresh Chandra.

By Md Hizbullah, Nitin Jain: Some rogue scientists at some of the country’s top crime labs have been caught on India Today’s camera offering to manipulate forensic reports in exchange for bribes.
Following a tip, India Today’s undercover reporters visited the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Varanasi, headed by its deputy director Suresh Chandra.

Posing as agents of a fictitious murder suspect, the reporters met him twice.
Chandra offered to falsify the forensic report in favour of the man the investigative reporters told him was accused of poisoning his victim.
CLEANING UP POISON IN FSL REPORT
The FSL chief at Varanasi demanded Rs 10 lakh for cleaning up the poison from record books.
“Let me go through it (the case) tomorrow but seeing it will also cost — a part payment of Rs 10,000 for checking the records, not the full amount yet,” he demanded. “We’ll start the process when the required fee is paid.”
When the reporters met Chandra again at a luxury hotel in Varanasi the next day, the same official of the zone’s main forensic laboratory offered to set up a special team to forge FSL findings of viscera samples.
“The case seems to have many signs of poisoning. The nails and lips (of the body) are blue,” he said. “Signs of poisoning are there. But we’ll put our job at stake. We’ll have to set up a team to do this. At least two to three people.”
Chandra asked for hard cash to create a team that he claimed would give a clean chit to the suspect in their report. “It will cost 10 (lakh) for (a team of) three people. Their report will be absolutely final. It will be signed off by two-three people. Team work cannot be challenged. It will stand (as valid) even in the Supreme Court,” Chandra boasted.
According to the Varanasi FSL chief, the entire process would take one week. “So it (the payment) has to be received before the result (report),” he said.
TAMPERING WITH DNA SAMPLES
When probed further, Chandra also offered to help manipulate a DNA report at the FSL headquarters in Lucknow in connection with a rape case.
“It will be done,” he claimed.
“But it’s a rape case,” the reporter probed.
Source: india today