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This writ petition is filed on the ground that petitioner was a candidate for selection to the Post of Associate Professor for which an advertisement was issued by the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak (M.P.).

2. Petitioner's contention is that petitioner possesses qualification of M.Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. in the relevant subject of Mathematics, therefore, he being more meritorious should have been selected for the post of Associate Professor, but, contrary to this, private respondent No.4 has been appointed by giving petitioner less marks in the API score card and contrary to the UGC guidelines.

5. Shri Arpan J. Pawar, learned counsel for respondents No.2 and 3, in his turn, submits that they have filed complete set of documents to demonstrate that private respondent No.4 had secured 40 marks in API and his total score was 85 as is evident from Annexure-R/2 which demonstrates that for the academic background private respondent No.4 was given 15 marks, for Research Performance based on API Score and Quality of Publications 40 marks, Assessment of Domain Knowledge and Teaching Skills 15 marks and in an Interview he was given 15 marks, totalling 85% against 11 marks secured by the petitioner under the head of Academic Background, 23.04 marks under the head of Research Performance based on API Score and Quality of Publications, 05 marks for Assessment of Domain Knowledge and Teaching Skills and 5 marks in the interview. It is further submitted that the candidate just below the private respondent No.4 is Dr. Manoj Sharma who had secured 44.90 marks against the petitioner who had only secured 44.04 marks. Thus, it is submitted that looking to the huge difference between the marks secured, only private respondent No.4 was recommended for appointment and candidature of all others was rejected.