According to Prof. Sinha, Dr. Cameotra has submitted an appeal to the Director-General of CSIR to reconsider the decision. As a result, [CSIR] has requested the retraction of the publication.”Dr. Cameotra was senior scientist at the Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Biochemistry Laboratory at IMTECH. This is the first time in recent years that the CSIR has taken the extreme step of terminating the service of a senior scientist for scientific misconduct. Though he did not fabricate the data himself, as a senior scientist and senior author of the papers, he failed to check if the data were correct, a highly reliable source told The Hindu. Dr. Khan has since resigned from IMTECH.

Source: The Hindu July 22, 2016 21:22 UTC