IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.3771 of 1998 Between: Satish Dronamraju, being minor rep. by his brother and natural guardian Shri Dronamraju Srinivas, age-36 years R/o.Plot.No.11,Doctors Colony Pedda Waltair, Visakhapatnam. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of Andhra Pradesh Rep.by its Secretary,Educational (E.C.2) Department, Secretariat Hyderabad. 2 Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management rep.by its Principal Visakhapatnam 3 The Andhra University Waltair Rep.by its Vice Chancellor Visakhapatnam. 4 The Convenor, EAMCET-1997 Engineering Admissions Technology Bhavan Masabtank Hyderabad. ....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 an order or direction or appropriate writ, declaring (a) the clause 2(ii) of G.O.Ms.No.256, dated 17-11-1993 issued by the 1st respondent herein as discriminatory and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution, besides being contrary to the orders of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in T.M.A. Pai Foundation case-1993 (4) SCC 276 and ultra vires the powers of the 1st respondent (b) and consequently issue a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to admit the petitioner into the Engineering course under vacant NRI quota for the academic year 1997-98 in the 2nd respondent’s college. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.R.RAGHUNANDAN Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION The Court made the following: ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the cause in this writ petition does not survive and has become infructuous. Recording the said submission, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. _______________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 22.02.2005 Nsr ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Secretary,Educational (E.C.2) Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Secretariat Hyderabad. 2 The Principal, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management Visakhapatnam 3 The Vice Chancellor, Andhra University, Waltair Visakhapatnam. 4 The Convenor, EAMCET-1997 Engineering Admissions Technology Bhavan Masabtank Hyderabad. 5 Two CCs to GP for Higher Education, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT) 6 2 CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TML}