new delhi, June 25 -- The recommendation of advocate Amit Prasad for appointment as a judge of the Delhi High Court comes with an unusual footnote in his professional record: a 2011 conviction in a fatal road accident case dating back to 1996 in which a Delhi trial court found him guilty of causing the death of a cyclist through rash and negligent driving before releasing him on probation of good conduct. He was a law student at the time; he entered the legal profession in 1998. There is nothing in the law that bars Prasad from holding a judge's office, but the recommendation itself is rare. Court records accessed by HT show that Prasad, who was the special public prosecutor in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case and the Shraddha Walkar ...