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Mr. Sinhal further submits that the HTET having been conducted in different years starting from year 2008, it would not be possible in any case to obtain old data.

As regards the last contention, it is to be observed that the validity of the HTET is for a period of 5 years, and the selection process having started in the year 2015, the earliest valid HTET score would be of year 2010 (of course relevant to the cut off date prescribed in the advertisement).

However, Ms. Shruti Goyal, learned AAG submits that whereas it is a fact that as regards the HTET from the year 2011 onwards, the validity period is 5 years, an undertaking was given in a different writ petition, that as regards examinations conducted prior to 2011, their validity would not be counted for just 5 years but uptil a particular date in the year 2016, because as regards the 2011 examination, the validity of that score (of HTET) would be valid till 2016.

6. In response to a query of this Court to Mr.Doon, as to why only finger prints and thumb impressions taken in the HTET held in November/December, 2017 (and subsequent examinations) would be subjected to scrutiny by the Unique Identification Authority of India for the purpose of comparison of the said biometrics to establish the correct identity of the candidate appearing for a competitive examination in which the HTET is a base criteria, (as had been stated in the affidavit of the Chairperson of the HSSC), Mr.Doon points to the order of this Court dated May 10, 2018, in which it had already been recorded on the basis of the report submitted to the Staff Selection Commission by the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Calcutta, to the effect that the size of the image file of the thumb impression should be 200/300 DPI, for a digital comparison to be made of such thumb impressions with any other thumb impressions, (except in the case of manual comparison).

He, therefore submits that digital biometrics having been made compulsory in the HTET as also by the HSSC for any examination, only since November, 2017, comparison with the data base of the Unique Identification Authority of India cannot be made prior to that.

7. (a) Consequently, this review application as regards the relief sought by the petitioner qua the ongoing selection process for the posts of PGT English has to be dismissed, with the order dated 04.08.2017, disposing of the writ petition also modified to the extent that qua all on ongoing processes of selection by the Commission, where the HTET has been taken by the candidates concerned prior to November, 2017, finger print matching 10 of 12 CM-3386-CWP-2018 in/and RA-CW-462-2017 (O&M) in CWP-14519-2017 need not be done by the Commission, unless it develops a methodology to do so on its own, but all selection processes where the HTET-2017 is the base test/criteria for selection (as regards those candidates who had taken the test from November, 2017 onwards), the finger print matching exercise shall be done as has been given in the affidavit of the Chairperson, Haryana Staff Selection Commission.