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52. There is one submission which Mr. Ojha, learned Senior Counsel made very forcefully during the hearing. It is about the conditions in which aspiring candidates fill up their application forms online. According to him, these forms are not filled up in the comfort of the candidate's home, working on his personal computer facility. It is done by proxy in overcrowded public facilities, like a cyber-café, where there is a high and logical chance for human errors to creep in while the application forms are finally submitted online. For a fact, it may be true in a few or in a substantial number of cases, but once a candidate has accepted on his undertaking that he has compared the entries made in the application form in the manner prescribed by taking out a print and comparing it with the original, there is no avenue to look at the proxy hand of a third party computer operator and make allowance for his mistake. Moreover, if this argument were to be accepted, the smooth conduct of the recruitment process to public posts, in large numbers, would go awry.