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39. Though the IO has chosen to rely, in this context, on the deposition of Smt. Bimla Sharma, before him, vouchsafing the contents of the copy of the complaint dated 3 rd February, 1999 supra, there is substance in the objection of Mr. Gupta, that the said statement was also, conspicuously, unsigned on the page where she had deposed to the said effect. There is no explanation, forthcoming, for this lacuna. The finding, of the IO, on this aspect, is obviously a finding in terrorem, for want of any better explanation. The IO has sought to wish away this contention of the petitioner by stating that he ought to have raised it at least on the last date of hearing. Needless to say, such a finding need only to be rejected to be discarded. This, in my view, is a serious infirmity in the proceedings.