By this application, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for issuance of a writ of certiorari for setting aside and quashing the adverse entries in his Annual Confidential Report (for short, ‘ACR’), for the years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, and also for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondent authorities to conduct a Review Departmental Promotion Committee for promoting him to the post of Second-in-Command with effect from 01.06.2010.

2. The case of the petitioner, in short, as projected in the writ petition is as follows:-

(i) At the time of filing the instant writ petition, the petitioner was working as Second-in-Command, 128th Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (for short, ‘CRPF’), at Guwahati. The petitioner was appointed as a Sub-Inspector, in the CRPF, on 03.11.1983. He was promoted to the post of Inspector, Assistant Commandant and Deputy Commandant in the year 1992, 1998 and 2005, respectively. On 04.08.2011, the petitioner was promoted to the post of Second-in-Command, which post the petitioner was holding at the time of filing the writ petition. He was due for promotion to the post of Second-in-Comm