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AND/OR Pass such other order or orders as may be deem fit and proper by this Hon'ble High Court and for which act of your kindness the Petitioner shall remain ever grateful."

3. It is stated in WP(C) No. 174/2014 that the respondent No. 10 (Prof. of Physics) and respondent No. 11 (Prof. of Biochemistry) had been irregularly promoted to the professorship of HAG (Higher Academic Grade) without obtaining the required API (Academic Performance Indicator) Score in Category III (Self Assessment) in utter violation of UGC Regulation, 2010. The respondent Nos. 10, 11 and 12 were assessed by the experts of other subjects. The respondent No. 13 (Prof. of Economics, Department of Economics) who is one year, one month and twelve days junior to the writ petitioner had been promoted to the professorship of HAG without obtaining API score in Category III (Self Assessment), in flagrant violation of UGC Regulation 2010. Respondent No. 14 (Prof. in Department of Geography) who is one year, one month and twelve days junior to the writ petitioner had been promoted to the professorship of HAG in utter violation of the provisions of UGC Regulation 2010. It is also further alleged that the respondent No. 15 (Prof. of Physics) who is eight years, one month and twenty six days junior to the writ petitioner was promoted to the professorship of HAG in utter violation of the UGC Regulation 2010.

b) of Appendix III [Self assessment of API scores submitted by the candidate for entire assessment periods (minimum 10 years eligibility period.)] Subject to verification by the Expert Committee to finalise the API Scores obtained by an applicant in his/her Self Assessment and scores for rest 50 percent will be allocated by the Expert Committee on the basis of performance evaluation and other credentials by referral procedure as provided in clause 6.4.10 and Appendix III Table II (A) of U.G.C. Regulation 2010."

10. It is also stated in the writ petition that in the School of Life Sciences, all Professors (applicants) having required API scores in Category III (API Scored maximum: 1670, and minimum scored:

697) had been granted 100% out of 50 marks (Column 4) in Self Assessment API in Category III, where the respondent No.11 in the present case was also an applicant as Professor of Biochemistry for HAG and himself was the Vice-Chancellor of the respondent -

NEHU. Table - 1 is the extract of the Assessment Report given by the Expert Committee in the School of Life Sciences.

"22.5 That the humble petitioner begs to state that the Respondent No.14 Professor of Geography, had completed 17 years, 5 months & 19 days service as professor as on 31/12/2008 and obtained 1323.5 API scores in category III. He should have been obtained minimum 873.5 API scores in self Assessment to qualify for promotion (50 per year). Respondent has obtained excess API in category III but his evaluation was not legal and proper as the same was done by the Expert of Environmental Studies and Anthropology (member Expert Committee HAG)."