IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD HON’BLE Mr. JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.24828 of 2000 Dated: January 29, 2007 Between: Vasantharao Hemakumar, S/o. Vasantharao Sudhakar Rao, aged about 20 years, R/o. Koduru, Koduru Mandal, Krishna District. … Petitioner And Government of A.P., rep. by its Secretary, Education Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, and others. … Respondents Order: By this Writ Petition, petitioner seeks Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not allotting a seat to him in the fourth respondent college as illegal and arbitrary. 2. In the aﬃdavit ﬁled in support of the Writ Petition, it is stated that petitioner has studied Intermediate course and as he failed in one of the subjects in the examinations conducted for the said course, he appeared for supplementary examinations and secured ﬁrst class. Thereafter, he appeared for EAMCET-2000 and obtained qualifying marks. When he approached the fourth respondent claiming a seat, he was informed orally that respondents 1 to 3 instructed the fourth respondent not to admit candidates who have passed compartmentally. When he was denied a seat in the fourth respondent, petitioner approached this court. 3. This court, while admitting the Writ Petition, by order dated 15-12-2000, in WPMP No.31669 of 2000, directed the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for giving him a seat in the fourth respondent college in any one of the streams. 4. Though the Writ Petition is of the year 2000, no counter aﬃdavit has been ﬁled and the interim direction issued by this court has been continuing all along. 5. As much as Engineering course is of four years duration and this court, by the aforesaid interim order, directed the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner irrespective of the fact that he is a compartmental candidate, and also in the absence of any counter aﬃdavit being ﬁled till date, I dispose of the Writ Petition directing the respondents to treat the admission of the petitioner as a valid one for all purposes, if he is already been admitted in the fourth respondent college pursuant to the interim directions of this court, and issue necessary certiﬁcates to him on his passing the examinations. No costs. __________________________ JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY. January 29, 2007 MRR