IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.309 of 2000 Between: K.N.Srinivas, S/o. k.v.S.V.Prasad Rao, aged 21 years, R/o. Pothinamallayya Palem (v) of Visakhapatnam (Rural), Visakhapatnam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Convener, E-cet (FDH)-99, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Kukatpalli, Hyderabad-72. 2 The Commissioner for Technical Education, Government of A.P., BRKR Bhavan, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad. 3 The Secretary to Government, Dept of Education, Government of A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad. 4 The Registrar, Andhra University, Waltair, Visakhapatnam. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ or order or direction more in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent No.1 in not considering the candidate of the petitioner as a local candidate of Andhra University for allotment of a seat in B.Tech (Mech) in any of the colleges falling under the local area of Andhra University, as illegal, arbitrary, unjust and unconstitutional, besides being violative of principles of natural justice and violative of provisions of the A.P. Public Employment (Organisation of Local cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order 1975, while declaring the petitioner as local candidate for Andhra University area and accordingly allot and admit the petitioner to the B.Tech Course (Mech) for the year 1999 in the interest of justice. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. D. GOVERDHANA CHARY Counsel for the Respondent No.1: MR. C. KODANDA RAM Counsel for the Respondent Nos.2 AND 3: GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Counsel for the respondent Nos.4: MR. T. RAJENDRA PRASAD The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner sought admission to Engineering course under Diploma holders’ quota. He claims that he is a local candidate of Andhra University area but the admission was denied. Therefore he filed the present writ petition seeking direction to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner as a local candidate of Andhra University area. As the petitioner seeks relief of admission to the course for the academic year 1999-2000 and the course duration itself is four years, no direction can be issued at this point of time. Liberty is reserved to the petitioner to file appropriate writ petition, if necessary, claiming reservation as a local area candidate. The writ petition, with the above observations, is dismissed. ____________ October 27, 2004. V.V.S. RAO, J YS To 1 Convener, E-cet (FDH)-99, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Kukatpalli, Hyderabad-72. 2 The Commissioner for Technical Education, Government of A.P., BRKR Bhavan, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad. 3 The Secretary to Government, Dept of Education, Government of A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad. 4 The Registrar, Andhra University, Waltair, Visakhapatnam. 5 Two CCs to the Government Pleader for Higher Education, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (O.U.T) 6 Two C.D. Copies.