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26. It is also imperative to note that while the plea of guilty is recorded on page 30, the proceedings on the plea of guilty is recorded on page 28 and the verdict of the court is recorded at page no. 21 and

20. The pagination of the SSFC proceedings are required to be in ascending order (as ROE in the original file shows that the page numbering starts from the last page and it is in ascending order) and thus the earlier steps of the proceedings, should have been on the earlier pages. In the normal course of a trial the „proceedings on the plea of guilty‟ should have succeeded the page containing the plea of guilty and it should have finally concluded with the verdict of the Court. However, from the record it appears that the proceedings of Court‟s verdict are on pages 31, 21 and 20 and in between the proceedings of plea of guilty about compliance of Rule 142 and 143 have been inserted. Thus, it leads to the only inference that the cyclostyled/typed pages were filled up subsequently and therefore, there is reasonable doubt about the genuineness of the SSFC proceedings. It reasonably appears to have been manipulated by the Commandant. No rational explanation has been given as to how the proceedings of the earlier date, will come on the subsequent page when the record is maintained in the ascending order.