THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 23501 of 2002 Dated: 11.07.2007 Between: K. Hamender Reddy and another … Petitioners AND The Government of A.P., rep., by its Secretary, Higher Education Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : None Counsel for respondent No.2: Sri S. Laxmikanth for Sri Deepak Bhattacharjee THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 23501 of 2002 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare clause (ii) of the orders in G.O.Ms.No.256 dated 17.11.1993 rendering the compartmentally passed intermediate candidates not eligible for admission into Engineering course as illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional and for a consequential direction to the respondents to continue the petitioners to prosecute their studies in the 3rd respondent Engineering college. At the hearing, no one appeared for the petitioners. Sri Laxmikanth, learned counsel representing Sri Deepak Bhattacharjee for respondent No.2 submitted that in view of the interim order passed by this Court permitting the petitioners to continue the course irrespective of their passing the qualifying examination compartmentally, the petitioners were continued and therefore the cause in the writ petition does not survive. In view of the statement made by the learned counsel, the writ petition has become infructuous and the same is dismissed as such. No costs. _____________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 11.07.2007 ES