GOVERNMENT lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to junk jailed Sen. Leila de Lima’s petition to overturn drug trafficking charges against her, claiming the petition was “falsified.”

In a seven-page manifestation, the Office of the Solicitor General accused de Lima of falsifying the “jurats” in her petition, or the portions in which she supposedly swore before a notary to affirm the veracity of her statements.

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