IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI DEVINDER GUPTA, THE CHIEF JUSTICE and THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT APPEAL NO : 1106 of 2004 (Writ Appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the Order dated 09/07/2003 in WP No: 4494 OF 2003 on the file of the High Court.) Between: 1. Ravi Rishi Educational Society rep., by its Secretary & Chairman, M.Manjusha, w/o N.Ramesh, r/o Hyderabad. 2. Sant Samarth Institute of Management, Bhongir, Nalgonda District rep., by its Secretary & Chairman, M.Manjusha, w/o N.Ramesh, r/o Hyderabad. ..... APPELLANTS (Petitioners) AND 1. Osmania University, Hyderabad rep., by its Registrar. 2 .Government of Andhra Pradesh, Higher Education Department, rep., by its Principal Secretary, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 3. Prof.Muktha Reddy, Major, Osmania University, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS (Respondents) Counsel for the Appellants: Mr.S.NIRANJAN REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: Mr.Deepak Bhattacharjee for Respondent No.1 G.P. for Higher Education for Respodnents 2 & 3. The Court made the following ORAL JUDGMENT: (per The Honourable Sri Devinder Gupta, the Chief Justice) Writ Petition of the appellants was dismissed by the learned Single Judge in which appellants sought for declaring the action of the respondents in not permitting the students of the 2nd petitioner institution to take the 1st semester examinations for MBA course for the academic year 2002-2003 as being illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional and consequently they sought a direction to the respondent- university to treat the 2nd petitioner institution as an affiliated college for all purposes until the 2nd petitioner institution is formally affiliated to JNTU. Learned counsel for the appellants submits that now the concerned academic year for which relief was sought having come to an end, the Appeal has been rendered infructuous. However, he seeks liberty to the appellants to approach Osmania University, Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for appropriate relief to the appellants irrespective of the dismissal of their writ petition. With leave and liberty granted to the appellants to approach the Universities, the Writ Appeal is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. ______________________ DEVINDER GUPTA, C.J. 12.7.2004. ____________ G.ROHINI, J. VR. To 1. The Registrar, Osmania University, Hyderabad. 2. The Principal Secretary to Govt. of A.P., Higher Education Department Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 3. Two CCs to Govt. Pleader for Higher Education, High Court Bldgs., Hyderabad (OUT). 4. Two CD copies.