IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 15359 of 2008 Between: 1 M/s. Mannan Institute of Science and Technology Aloor Villae, Chevella Mandal, ranga Reddy District rep by its Principal. 2 M/s. Mannan Educational Society, a Society registered under Co- operative Societies Act with its office situated at H. No. 8-2-6843/R Road No. 12 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, rep by its Secretary Sri Abid Rasool Khan, ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Government of Andhra Pradesh rep by its Principal Secretary, Higher Eduation Department, A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The Convenor-EAMCET-2008 C/o Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kukatpally, Hyderabad. 3 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, rep by its Registrar. 4 A.P. State Council for Higher Education Masab Tank, Hyderabad rep by its Chairman. 5 All India Council for Technical Education Janpath, New Delhi, rep by its secretary. .....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 an appropriate Writ, order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the Respondent Nos. 1 to 4 in not including 60 seats in Automobile Engineering and 60 seats in Mechanical Engineering as approved by all India Council for Technical Education i.e, Respondent No.5 for the Counselling for the academic year 2008-09 in spite of granting time to rectify the deficiencies by 30-08-2008 and in spite of including the said intakes for counseling for the years 2002-2003 to 2007-2008 as arbitrary, illegal and vioaltive of principles of natural justice and violative of fundamental rights guaranteed to the petitioner U/Art 14, 19 (1)(g) of Constitution of India and constitutional guarantee U/Art. 300(A) of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondent No.1 to 4 to include t0 seats in Automobile Engineering and 60 seats in Mechanical Engineering fort the counseling in addition to 60 seats in Computer Science Engineering 60 seats in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and 120seats in Electronics and Communication Engineering as per the list published in Website, and to grant such other relief or reliefs. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.N.SRIDHAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking the following substantial relief. “to issue an appropriate Writ, order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the Respondent Nos. 1 to 4 in not including 60 seats in Automobile Engineering and 60 seats in Mechanical Engineering as approved by all India Council for Technical Education i.e, Respondent No.5 for the Counselling for the academic year 2008-09 in spite of granting time to rectify the deficiencies by 30-08-2008 and in spite of including the said intakes for counseling for the years 2002-2003 to 2007-2008 as arbitrary, illegal and vioaltive of principles of natural justice and violative of fundamental rights guaranteed to the petitioner U/Art 14, 19 (1)(g) of Constitution of India and constitutional guarantee U/Art. 300(A) of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondent No.1 to 4 to include t0 seats in Automobile Engineering and 60 seats in Mechanical Engineering fort the counseling in addition to 60 seats in Computer Science Engineering 60 seats in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and 120seats in Electronics and Communication Engineering as per the list published in Website, and to grant such other relief or reliefs. This Court while admitting the writ petition on 17.7.2008 directed the 2nd respondent – Convenor, EAMCET, 2008 to include the college of the petitioner also with regard to the two courses viz., Automobile and Mechanical from 18.7.2008 itself. Today, when the writ petition is taken up, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that in view of the interim orders granted by this Court on 17.7.2008, the intake of seats in Automobile Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Branches are included for counseling and, therefore, no further orders are required to be passed in the writ petition. Recording the above submission, the writ petition is closed. No costs. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.6.2.2009 msv