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Now, in the second session sitting of the Court, the petitioner is present in person and has also filed another affidavit, admitting lastly on the facts as have surfaced and divulged before the Court. The contents of this second affidavit filed today could be taken note of as under:-

"1. That the deponent himself is the petitioner, hence is well conversant with the facts and circumstances of the above noted case.
2. That the deponent is filing this affidavit in support of application for considering unconditional apology for filing the wrong affidavit before the Hon'ble Court in the instant Petition which is filed as Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by which the deponent has filed the Wrong Affidavit inadvertently before the Hon'ble Court.

The repeated attempts on the part of the petitioner to mislead the court, to conceal material facts and to continue with his attempt in maintaining this petition, cast a doubt if he is indeed remorseful of his conduct. However, when the petitioner has stated his unconditional apology for filing wrong affidavit and has further undertaken not to repeat the mistake in future and has also suggested the amount of penalty, while admitting that the amount suggested by him would not be appropriate or sufficient, we feel that the petitioner may still be given one chance to correct himself but only after proper penalization and while deprecating such a conduct.