IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No: 19233 of 2002 BETWEEN: Dr. N. Ramakoteswara Rao, S/o. Venkataratnam, R/o. Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District. ... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of India, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi - 110001. 2 Director, Sainik Welfare Office, Gruhakalpa Premises, 2nd Floor, 4th Block, M.J. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad. 3 Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, General Administration Department, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad. 4 Zilla Sainik Welfare Officer, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District. 5 N.T.R. Health University, Vijayawada Rep. by its Registrar, Vijayawada, Krishna District. ...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 issue a writ, order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of WRIT OF MANDAMUS declaring the action of the respondents to treat the award given to the petitioner as gallantry award for all the purposes and consider the application of the petitioner's son Sri Aditya with Hall Ticket No. 3426056 - Rank 11486 under category No.3 while making the admission against the vacancies under Army quota and to pass such other order or orders. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.RAMA RAO GHANTA Counsel for the Respondents: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following: ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in view of the interim order dated 08.10.2002 no further orders are required to be passed in the writ petition. Recording the above submission, the writ petition is accordingly closed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J April 15, 2008 DSK