RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J.

1. Though this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India was filed challenging, besides the letter dated 3rd December, 2014 of the respondent University Grants Commission (UGC) to the petitioner, a deemed to be university (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner University), also the Regulations 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 11.0, 12.0, 14.0, 15.0, 17.0, 18.0 and 22.0 of the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2010 but there being no cause of action for impugning the Regulations 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 11.0, 14.0, 15.0, 17.0, 18.0 and 22.0, the hearing, with the consent of the parties, was confined to the challenge, besides to the letter dated 3rd December, 2014, to Regulation 12 only, with the understanding that the petitioner University as and when feels the need to challenge the other Regulations aforesaid, shall be entitled thereto.

2. The cause of action for the writ petition was the letter dated 3rd December, 2014 (supra) by which the respondent UGC informed the petitioner University that the respondent UGC had never granted any permission / approval to the petitioner University to start the Departments of, i) Public Health, i