HT204150 Iphone 4S duplicate contacts

I have duplicate contacts on my iPhone, but not on iCloud, my iPad or my desk top computer. I have all my devices set to sync only through iCloud (not through iTunes). My iPhone is the only device with duplicate contacts. How can I correct this problem.

I have the exact same problem.
I tried manually deleting the contacts from iPhone, iCloud and from my Mac Address book (after I exported contacts to a vcard from mac).
Then I imported the contacts to iCloud, and tried synching it with iPhone just to realise I am back at sqaure one.
So booked an appointment at Genius Bar and it turns out they are not really geniuses.
They were not even able to figure out why this is happening nor have an idea of how to solve this.
They tried resetting my phone couple of times but still I am having the same problem.
Any help??

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