NEW DELHI, April 29 -- A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced two Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers - a joint director and an inspector - to three months' imprisonment each for conducting an illegal search and arrest at the residence of an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer 26 years ago.

Delivering the sentence, judicial magistrate first class Shashank Nandan Bhatt of Tis Hazari courts observed that public servants cannot be permitted to abuse their powers to settle personal scores.

The court had on April 18 convicted the two officers - present joint director Ramneesh and VK Pandey, then a CBI inspector - under penal provisions related to house trespass, mischief and voluntarily causing hurt, for forcibly entering the IRS off...