THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Embarrassed by errors in the list of 51 women pilgrims that the state government submitted to the Supreme Court as proof of the number of women aged between 10 and 50 who had entered

, the state police is working post-haste to revise the list.

It is learnt that the list was prepared under the supervision of an ADGP and the police relied blindly on information provided by pilgrims during registration in the virtual queue website. The team which prepared the list has informed the state police chief that the errors arose due to failure to crosscheck the data.

Chief minister

is learnt to be upset over the errors in the list and feels that it has taken away the sheen from the government's handling of the Sabarimala controversy so far. Though the CPM and chief minister's office decided to publicly dismiss the errors as a technical glitch, other partners in the LDF refused to see it lightly.

CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran on Saturday told reporters that since the government submitted the list, the onus was on it to deal with the fallout.

Sources said the police passed on the information to the law department only with the intention of using it as a supplementary document in the event of Supreme Court asking inconvenient questions during the hearing of Friday's petition. "The intention of the police was to help the counsel argue the case better. However, the affidavit was presented despite the court not asking for it", said a source.

Travancore Devaswom Board president A Padmakumar dissociated himself from the controversy and said the government should shoulder the responsibility for the list and the board had nothing to do with it. CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, however, tried to bail out the government by saying the government didn't add anything to the list. "This controversy is irrelevant. The information in the list are provided by pilgrims themselves", he said.

Meanwhile, more discrepancies in the list came to light on Sunday. A

called Kalavathy, listed 48, turned out to be a male named Sankar who is a resident of Puducherry. Though the phone number and ID proof provided along with the list matches that of Sankar, the name is mentioned as Kalavathy and sex as female. Providing some relief to the government, a pilgrim named Santhi, a resident of

, told a section of media that she was only 48 years and her details mentioned in the police list was correct.

Onus on government, says Kanam Rajendran

CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran on Saturday told reporters that since the government submitted the list, the onus was on it to deal with the fallout.

Sources said the police passed on the information to the law department only with the intention of using it as a supplementary document in the event of Supreme Court asking inconvenient questions during the hearing of Friday’s petition. “The intention of the police was to help the counsel argue the case better. The affidavit was presented despite the court not asking for it”, said a source. Travancore Devaswom Board president A Padmakumar dissociated himself from the controversy and said government should shoulder the responsibility for the list and the board had nothing to do with it. CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan tried to bail out the government by saying the it didn’t add anything to the list. “This controversy is irrelevant. The information in the list are provided by pilgrims themselves”, he said.

Meanwhile, more discrepancies in the list came to light on Sunday. A pilgrim called Kalavathy, listed 48, turned out to be a male named Sankar from Puducherry. Though phone number and ID proof provided with the list matches that of Sankar, the name is mentioned as Kalavathy and sex as female. Providing some relief to the government, a pilgrim named Santhi, a resident of Vellore, told a section of media that she was only 48 years and her details mentioned in the police list was correct.