India, Sept. 17 -- Fifteen years after a recruitment scandal rocked the Navy, a special CBI court on Tuesday convicted a former Naval commander and the proprietor of a coaching centre for leaking the paper of the Western Naval Command's lower division clerk (LDC) exam in 2010. Four other co-accused were acquitted by special CBI judge Amit V Kharkar for want of evidence.

The court held INS Angre commander and president of the Western Naval Command's recruitment board, Ramesh Chand Saini, and the proprietor of Manasa International Academy in Visakhapatnam, Rambir Singh Rawat, guilty of conspiracy and criminal misconduct.

Both had acted "with dishonest intention to cheat the Indian Navy and general public and caused wrongful gain to accuse...