THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17689 of 2009 Between: Janardhan Reddy College of Education, Huzurabad, Karimnagar District, rep. By its Correspondent A. Srinivs, H.No.4/2A, Indiranagar, Saidapur Road, Huzurabad, Karimnagar District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1. National Council for Teacher Education, rep. By its Regional Director, 1st Floor, CSD Building, HMT post, Bangalore 560 031 and others. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: K. Durga Prasad Counsel for Respondent No.1: Mr. B. Adinarayana Rao (SC for NCTE) Counsel for Respondent No.2: G.P. for Education. Counsel for Respondent No.3: Sri C. Sudesh Anand (SC for Higher Education) Counsel for Respondent No.4: Sri Deepakbhattahcarjee The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in withdrawing recognition of the petitioner college vide impugned proceedings F.SRO/NCTE/Ref/2008-09/5865, dated 06.10.2008 and consequential order of the fourth respondent vide No.170/7/CDC/KU/2009, dated 08.05.2009 as illegal and arbitrary and consequently to direct the respondents to continue the petitioner-college to impart study in B.Ed. course by allotting students to it in EDCET 2009-10 admissions. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Standing Counsel appearing for the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) that similar batch of cases were disposed of by this Court in W.P.No.22090 of 2008 and batch, dated 11.08.2009 permitting the petitioners therein to file statutory appeal as contemplated under Section 18 of the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 (for short ‘the Act’). In that view of the matter, the learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to prefer an appeal against the order dated 06.10.2008 passed by the first respondent withdrawing the recognition of the petitioner. In view of the representation of the learned counsel for the petitioner, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition permitting the petitioner to prefer an appeal against the impugned order dated 6.10.2008 before the appellate authority as contemplated under Section 18 of the Act. If such an appeal is filed within a period of four weeks from today, the appellate authority shall entertain the same without raising any objection with regard to limitation and consider the same on merits and pass appropriate orders. With the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No costs. _______________________ (R.SUBHASH REDDY, J.) 25th August, 2009 Note: C.C. in 3 days. (B/o) Js.