THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.18050 AND 23586 OF 2010 DATED 15TH DECEMBER, 2011 BETWEEN Joseph Sriharsha Mary Indraja Educational Society and another. …Petitioners And All India Council for Technical Education …Respondent THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.18050 AND 23586 OF 2010 COMMON ORDER: Writ Petition No.18050 of 2010 was filed by the petitioner educational society and its constituent college assailing the action of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, in not granting approval to them for making admissions under the 15% supernumerary quota, meant for foreign nationals/persons of Indian origin/children of Indian workers in Gulf countries, for the academic year 2010-11. By interim order dated 06.08.2010, the petitioners were permitted to make a representation to the Regional Officer, Southern Regional Committee of the AICTE seeking grant of the supernumerary quota for the academic year 2010-11 and the AICTE was directed to consider and dispose of the said application on merits along with the cases of other existing colleges which were being granted this facility. The petitioners’ application having been rejected by the AICTE under proceedings dated 02.09.2010, Writ Petition No.23586 of 2010 came to be instituted by them challenging the said proceedings. Completion of the pleadings in the writ petitions notwithstanding, the fact remains that the grievance of the petitioners was with specific regard to grant of permission for admissions to be made during the academic year 2010-11. Inexorable being the passage of time, this academic year has already expired and the petitioners’ dispute has thus become purely academic. That being so, the Writ Petitions are dismissed as infructuous leaving it open to the petitioners to independently assail the grounds on which their application was rejected by the AICTE for the academic year 2010-11, as the same may continue to be cause for grievance in subsequent academic years also. WPMP No.22806 of 2010 in W.P.No.18050 of 2010 and WPMP No.30192 of 2010 in W.P.No.23586 of 2010 shall stand dismissed in consequence. No order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 15TH DECEMBER, 2011. PGS/VGSR