THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 7944 OF 2010 Dated 9th April, 2010 Between: His Degree College …Petitioner And The Registrar, Dr B.R.Ambedkar Open University and another …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri N.Gowrishanker Counsel for the respondents: Smt R.Raghavamma for Sri M.Ratna Reddy The Court made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in shifting the study centre from the petitioner Degree College, Addateegala to Government Degree College, Rampachodavaram, in terms of order dated 12.03.2010, as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard Sri N.Gowrishankar, learned counsel for the petitioner, and learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. The petitioner is a society, which is running a Degree College in the name and style of “His Degree College” at a place called Addateegala. The respondents chose the petitioner college for running a study centre in the year 2004 and the said centre was allowed to be run in the petitioner’s college up to the academic year 2009-2010. By order dated 12.03.2010; respondent No.2 informed the petitioner that the University has taken a decision to shift the study centre from the petitioner Degree College at Addateegala to Government Degree College, Rampachodavaram, and that it shall handover all the records, equipment, furniture, telephone, bank balance with updated balance as on date etc., to the persons named in the said proceedings for shifting of the study centre. Questioning these proceedings, the petitioner filed the present writ petition. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that no notice has been given by the respondents before deciding to shift the study centre and that the decision to shift the study centre is arbitrary. Learned Standing Counsel, opposing these contentions, submitted that as a matter of policy, the University has decided to shift the centre from Addateegala to Rampachodavaram and that the petitioner’s rights have not been affected by such a decision. He also submitted that there is no requirement of a prior notice to be given to the petitioner. After carefully considering the submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, I am of the view that the petitioner failed to establish any legally enforceable right against the respondents to retain the study centre in its College at Addateegala. The learned counsel for the petitioner has not placed reliance on any statutory provision or any other instrument, under which the petitioner is conferred with the right to continue the study centre. In the absence of any such right in the petitioner, the right of the respondents to establish a study centre at the place of their choice cannot be curtailed or interfered with by this Court. For the abovementioned reasons, I do not find any merit in this writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP No.10210 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 9th April, 2010 vrn