IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No. 23969 of 2002 Between: Shahjehan College of Business Management, rep. by its Secretart Sri Ahmeduddin,3-5-782/B, 1st Floor, King Koti, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The All India Council for Technical Education, rep. by its Member Secretary, IndiraGandhi Sports Complex, New Delhi. 2 The Director Admissions (MBA MCA CET 2002) Osmania University, Hyderabad. 3 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary, Higher Education Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to declare the action of the 1st respondent in reducing the approved intake of the petitioner College from 40 to 30 seats in the MBA course vide the impugned proceeding No.431/AP-01/ET-APR(M)/96 dt. 24.6.2002 as arbitrary and illegal offending Article 14 of the Constitution of India by way of issuance of a writ, order or direction one more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus and consequently direct the 1st respondent to grant approval to the petitioner for 40 seats in MCA programme on and from the academic year 2002-2003. Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr.S.SRI RAM Counsel for Respondents : Mr.M.VISHNU VARDHAN REDDY (SC FOR OSMANIA UNIVERSITY) The Court made the following : ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no cause survives in this writ petition and it has become infructuous. Recording the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Writ Petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No order as to costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J Date: 29.6.2005 DA To 1 The Member Secreary, All India Council for Technical Education, IndiraGandhi Sports Complex, New Delhi. 2 The Director Admissions (MBA MCA CET 2002) Osmania University, Hyderabad. 3 The Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Higher Education Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 4 Two CD copies.