IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN TUESDAY, THE 17TH FEBRUARY 2009 / 28TH MAGHA 1930 OP.No. 24414 of 1998(F) ----------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- RENJIT RAJU M. MATHEW, AGED 17, S/O. DR. RAJU M. MATHEW, RESIDING AT MUNJANATTU HOUSE, THENJIPPALAM P.O., MALAPPURAM DISTRICT REP. BY NEXT FRIEND AND FATHER DR. RAJU M. MATHEW,AGED 53 (S/O. M.D. MATHEW) MUNJANATTU HOUSE, P.B.NO. 10, CALICUT UNIVERSITY P.O. MALAPPURAM DT. BY ADV. SRI.K.JAGADEESCHANDRAN NAIR RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, SECRETARIAT, TRIVANDRUM. 2. THE CONTROLLER OF ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, GOVT. OF KERALA, HOUSING BOARD BUILDING, SANTHINAGAR, TRIVANDRUM. ADV. SRI. P.G. CHACKO SRI. P.B. SURESH KUMAR. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. T.K. VIPINDAS. THIS ORIGINAL PETITION HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 17/02/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY, DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. Siri Jagan, J. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= O.P. No. 24414 of 1998 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dated this, the 17th February, 2009. J U D G M E N T The petitioner is a student of Engineering, who sought admission for the year 1998-99. He submits that he originally obtained a free seat as per his merit, but on re-allotment, he was given a payment seat. When, in the next year, he applied for T.C to join elsewhere, the College concerned insisted on his paying the full fee as a payment seat, which he refused to pay. The petitioner therefore filed this original petition seeking the following reliefs originally: “A. By the issue of a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ, order or direction the records relating to Ext. P2 and the G O M S 122/98 and the selection and admission to the various Engineering Courses for 1998-99 may be called for the examined and the said Government Order and consequential changes made in the admissions to Engineering Colleges for 1998-99 may be set aside. B. The whole process of re-interview and re-selection may be quashed as far as the petitioner is concerned and the petitioner's original status as per Ext. P4 selection memo and Ext. P5 option form may be restored and all consequential directions issued. C. The reservation for admission to educational institutions in Kerala for backward classes may be directed to be reviewed and made upto date and based on existing data as at present.” 2. The college concerned was not made a party in the original petition. Subsequently, the petitioner filed C.M.P.No. 2081/1999 for amendment of the original petition , which was allowed on 27-1-1999. The petitioner has not filed any amended original petition. The original petition came up in the list for hearing, which list was published on 13-2-1999. When the matter was taken up today, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks time to produce amended original petition. I am not inclined to entertain such a request especially since the petitioner had enough time to produce amended O.P No. 24414/1998. -: 2 :- original petition after publication of the hearing list on 13-2-2008, which the petitioner has not cared to do. The original petition is of the year 1998 and I am not inclined to adjourn the case any further. In the above circumstances, the original petition is dismissed for non-prosecution. Sd/- S. Siri Jagan, Judge. Tds/ [True copy] P.S to Judge. O.P No. 24414/1998. -: 3 :- S. Siri Jagan, J. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= O.P. No. 24414 of 1998 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= J U D G M E N T 17th February, 2009.