New Delhi, Oct 30 (PTI) The Coalition for a GM-Free India on Thursday accused the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Ministry of Agriculture of perpetrating a "scientific fraud" in the promotion of genome-edited rice varieties, alleging that official trial data has been rigged to manufacture false claims of success.

At a press conference, the coalition presented data from ICAR's Annual Progress Reports (2023 and 2024) of the All India Coordinated Research Project on Rice (AICRPR), claiming the findings expose a pattern of scientific manipulation where ICAR's conclusions directly contradict its own data.

The allegations centre on two genome-edited rice varieties -- Pusa DST-1 and DRR Dhan 100 (Kamala) -- which were announced by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh

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