CKeditor adding an extra <br/> tag when a <br/> tag is encountered

I am experiencing a very annoying problem with ckeditor 4.4.7.3. Everytime a <br/> is entered into the editor, it displays the next line right below the existing line as one would expect. However, when you view the page, an extra <br/> tag appears along side the original <br/> tag. You can see this when looking at the source for the page.

Rendered output <p>   <strong>Age</strong>   <br>   <br>   24 </p> 

Looking at the source html while in ckeditor reveals that there is only one <br/> there.

Source as seen in ckeditor <p>   <strong>Age</strong>   <br>   24 </p> 

This would seem to indicate to me that Drupal is adding line breaks while rendering the output. I have tried disabling the option: Convert line breaks into HTML (i.e. <br> and <p>) in the text format, but that doesn’t change anything. I have also disabled JavaScript to see if some JavaScript file is doing this – but that makes no difference either.

I have googled this issue and have not found a solution yet (other people have been experiencing as well but no solution given). I would appreciate any suggestions in fixing this problem.

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