THE HONOURABLE SHRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 6440 OF 2006 Dated 18th December, 2006 Between: Dr. K.Manoraju … Petitioner And The Registrar, N.T.R. University of Health Science, A.P., Vijayawada, Krishna District. … Respondent. ORAL ORDER: This writ petition is filed to declare the action of the respondent-University in treating the applicant as Non-local of Osmania University area for admission to P.G. course as illegal and arbitrary and for a direction to the respondent-university to treat the applicant as local in the colleges situated in Osmania University local area. The petitioner has passed his qualifying examination from the Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool. To construe a candidate as local candidate, the period of study for four consecutive academic years in an educational institution or institutions in such local area ending with the academic year in which he/she appeared in relevant qualifying examination is the criterion, as per the Presidential Order. In that view of the matter, the petitioner was not entitled to be considered as local candidate of Osmania University area for grant of admission to post-graduate medical course. In any event, admissions were concluded long back and no direction can be given at this stage. The writ petition is devoid of any merit and the same is accordingly dismissed. No costs. _____________________ 18.12.2006 R.SUBHASH REDDY, J. VR