THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.7078 of 2009 Date:07.07.2011 Between: SIMS College of Education, Guntur ..... Petitioner AND The Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur and another .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri P.V.Venkateswara Rao Counsel for Respondent No.1: Sri M.Srinivas Counsel for Respondent No.2: -- The Court made the following: ORDER: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition itself is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…an order, direction or writ more particularly the writ of mandamus declaring the action of 1st respondent in directing the petitioner to pay infrastructure fee at Rs.1500/- per student admitted for 2007-2008 in Lr.No.ANU/Affil/Fee/Rates/2007-2008 dt.10.09.2008 is illegal arbitrary and without jurisdiction and consequently set aside the directions issued by the 1st respondent in Lr.No.ANU/Affil/Fee/Rates/2007-2008 dt.10.09.2008 to the extent of levy of infrastructure fee at Rs.1500/- per student admitted for the year 2007-2008 and pass such further order or orders…” Sri Srinivas Mantha, learned standing counsel appearing for the respondent No.1-University, stated that similar writ petitions were disposed of. The learned counsel for the petitioner, while accepting the submission of the learned standing counsel, placed before the Court a copy of order dated 08.02.2011 in W.P.No.27195 of 2007 and batch, wherein this Court allowed the writ petitions in the following terms: a) the writ petitions are allowed, setting aside the demand notices issued to the petitioners, on the ground that they are not based on any statute, ordinance or regulation, made under the A.P. Universities Act, 1991; b) it shall be open to the University to inquire as to whether the petitioners have collected any amount from the students, towards development fee/infrastructure fee, and if it emerges that the fee has been collected, the petitioners shall be under obligation to refund the same to the students, or pay it to the University; and c) if any statement made by the petitioners in this regard is found to be incorrect, that would, by itself, be a ground to deny the renewal of affiliation. Having regard to the above admitted position, this Writ Petition is allowed in terms of the above reproduced order. As a sequel to allowing the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.9265 of 2009 is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 07th July, 2011 GHN