THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 20323 OF 2007 Dated 8th July, 2010 Between: Sriramula Sravani …Petitioner And Dr NTR University of Health Sciences and another …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri V.Vishwanatham Counsel for respondent No.1: Sri D.V.Nagarjuna Babu Counsel for respondent No.2: None appeared The Court made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in providing reservation of 3% only to the physically handicapped persons with locomotory disorder with disability of lower limbs under Rule 7.5 of the Prospectus for admission into MBBS & BDS courses for the academic year 2007-2008 and also to declare Rule 9(3) of the Andhra Pradesh Government Professional Institutions (Regulation of Admissions into under Graduate Medical and Dental Professional Courses) Rules, 2004, as contrary to Section 39 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 as invalid. At the hearing, Sri V.Vishwanatham, learned counsel for the petitioner, fairly conceded that as the academic year for which the petitioner sought for admission into the MBBS/BDS course has already come to an end, the cause on which the writ petition is founded no longer survives. The learned counsel, however, submitted that the issue raised in the writ petition nevertheless requires to be adjudicated. The law is well settled that the Courts do not decide the issues for academic purposes. Unless the cause survives, the issues will not be adjudicated (See R.S.Nayak vs. A.R. Antulay[1] and Ramdas Athawale (5) vs. Union of India[2]). In view of the above legal position as the cause of action admittedly ceased to survive, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous reserving the legal issues raised in this writ petition for adjudication in appropriate proceedings. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 8th July, 2010 vrn [1] (1984)(2) SCC 183 [2] ( (2010) 4 SCC 1