KASARGOD:The counsels of the DYFI have submitted a copy of the original study on endosulfan conducted by the community medicine department of the Kozhikode Medical College to the Supreme Court. The new development confirms the Express report that some pages of the original report were missing in the earlier affidavit filed by the DYFI in the court. The counsel of the DYFI was compelled to file the report following the exposure made by Express and also on the basis of the argument in the first hearing of the case.Express said in its earlier report that only 15 pages of the study report had been filed and many tables were missing in them. Some portions which were not in the original report were interpolated in the document. The petition was filed by Adv Meena C R in the Supreme Court on August 27. The petitioner said that a ‘relevant extract’ of the report ‘Epidemiological study of health status of population in Kasargod district’ has now been produced in the court along with the writ petition.Deepak Prakash, counsel of the petitioner, has averred in the affidavit that ‘the facts mentioned are true to his knowledge and belief and information derived from the records of the case was as per the legal advice received and believed by him’. However, the fresh affidavit has stated what was filed earlier was a ‘relevant extract’ of the study report. DYFI state secretary T V Rajesh, the petitioner, had stated in the earlier affidavit ‘that the annexure filed herewith are true of its originals’.According to Supreme Court lawyers, a witness giving willful false evidence under oath can be prosecuted to seven years of imprisonment under sections 190 to 193 of the IPC.
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