THE Center for International Law has asked the Supreme Court to cite the Solicitor General and police officials in contempt for submitting “rubbish documents” in connection with the case against the government’s war on drugs.

In its statement, the group said the government’s chief lawyer and police have defied the high court’s order to submit documents related to 20,322 deaths by sending nondrug-related files.

“What the Office of the Solicitor General and Philippine National Police virtually want is for the Supreme Court and the petitioners to utterly waste valuable time and resources examining case files which are totally irrelevant,” the plaintiff said in its motion.

It said the the solicitor general and the police furnished them with 289 compact discs containing documents the court had ordered them to submit.

But out of 1,792 death files inspected by the organization so far, 801 were classified as solved while 991 were unsolved.

Of the solved cases, 90% of were are non-drug related, while 56% percent of unsolved cases were also not related to drugs.

Nondrug-related cased included incidents of stabbing, mauling, hacking and shooting.

The group said the government “cannot feign ignorance” in their obligation and should be ordered to submit the complete and correct documents. — Vann Marlo M. Villegas

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