Hon'ble RAFIQ, J.— This writ petition has been filed by petitioner-Virendra Mehta challenging the action of the respondents in downgrading the assessment with regard to his performance in APARs of the year 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 and further praying that such downgrading may be declared illegal and be set aside and the respondents be directed to treat the entries in respect of those years as outstanding/very good for all practical purposes including for consideration of the candidature of the petitioner for promotion to Rajasthan Accounts Service Super Time Scale.

2. Shri M.M. Ranjan, learned senior counsel for the petitioner has argued that the Reporting Officer has given outstanding remarks to the petitioner in respect of APAR of the years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08. The Reviewing Officer and downgraded those entries respectively to `very good' and `good' in respect of year 2005-06 and 2006-07 and retained `outstanding' entry in respect of the year 2007-08, but the Accepting Officer has further downgraded them to `average' in respect of the year 2005-06 and 2007-08 and `good' in respect of the year 2006-07. Learned senior counsel submitted that as per the judgments

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