(1.) The petitioner has filed this petition seeking issuance of the following writs:
(2.) The above prayers are founded on the following averments made, and grounds taken, in the petition.
(3.) Sher-I-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, abbreviated as SKUAST (for short, the respondentuniversity), issued advertisement notice no.01 of 2017 dated 102017 notifying certain posts of Assistant Professors, including the post of Assistant Professor-cum-Junior Scientist (Forestry). The notice prescribed, inter alia, the following eligibility criteria: