IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.19962 of 2001 Between: 1 Dr. B. Hanmanth Rao, S/o. Kishan Rao, R/o. Mancherial, Adilabad District. 2 Dr. T. Praveen Kumar, S/o. Rajendra Babu, R/o. Paloncha, Khammam District. 3 Dr. B. Nagabhushan Reddy, S/o. Tirumaleswar Reddy, R/o. Bethamcherla, Kurnool District. 4 Dr. B. Surender Reddy, S/o. Mohan Reddy R/o. Hyderabad. ...PETITIONERS AND 1 State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Medical, Health and Family Welfare Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad-22. 2 The NTR University of Health Sciences, Rep. by its Registrar, Gunadala, Vijayawada. 3 The Selection Committee, Constituted for admission to Post Graduate Medical Courses in Andhra Pradesh for the year 1998-99, NTR University of Health Sciences, Gunadala, Vijayawada. ...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 a Writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus iii). declaring the action of the respondents in resorting to first admit reserved candidates against open competition seats and immediately after counselling shifting them to colleges of their choice under reserved category and the resultant vacancy in the open competition is filled up by the candidate who were already admitted under Backward Classes category, as arbitrary, illegal, and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India; and iv). direct the respondents to refrain from giving effect to the sliding procedure after the counselling and further direct them to fill up the resultant vacancy caused in the open competition by candidates of open competition only strictly in terms of rank obtained in the entrance test. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR MEDICAL HEALTH & FAMI.WELFARE The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.19962 of 2001 ORDER: Sri P.S.Raja Sekhar, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that the cause in this Writ Petition does not survive and that the Writ Petition has become infructuous. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, dismissed as infructuous. _______________________ (RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J) 25th March 2009 RRB