3-page article is published in today's nature about it. Very shameful act and it's a shame that he didn't get punished enough; and it seems he escaped even the small punishment he got.

Postdoc Vipul Bhrigu destroyed a colleague’s experiments to get ahead. It took a hidden camera to expose a little-known, malicious side of science.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-researchsabotage,0,5642070.story

Former researcher awaits restitution in sabotage

ANN ARBOR, Mich. —

A former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan's Comprehensive Cancer Center who pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property in the sabotage of a graduate student's work is awaiting word on restitution in the case.

Vipul Bhrigu pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor in June in 15th District Court in Ann Arbor. Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines sentenced him in July to six months of probation and more than $9,500 in fines and costs.

Details of the case were reported Wednesday by the journal Nature.

Authorities say Bhrigu tampered with experiments and was caught after police set up hidden cameras in a research lab. Bhrigu now is living in India. He told Nature: "It was a complete lack of moral judgment."

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