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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court declared on Wednesday that presenting falsehoods before trial courts in criminal cases will now be treated as perjury, entailing serious penal consequences. “Our judicial system has suffered a lot as a consequence of deviation from the truth and it is about time that such a colossal wrong may be rectified in all earnestness,” Chief Justice Asif …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court declared on Wednesday that presenting falsehoods before trial courts in criminal cases will now be treated as perjury, entailing serious penal consequences. “Our judicial system has suffered a lot as a consequence of deviation from the truth and it is about time that such a colossal wrong may be rectified in all earnestness,” Chief Justice Asif …