IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.R.RAMACHANDRA MENON TUESDAY, THE 4TH OCTOBER 2011 / 12TH ASWINA 1933 WP(C).No. 24848 of 2011(E) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- MOHANDAS COLLGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE, Y.M.R JUNCTION NANTHENCODE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 695 003, REPRESENTED BY ITS CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR B.NANDA GOPAL. BY ADV. SRI.V.JAYAKUMAR RESPONDENT : ------------ UNIVERSITY OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY ITS REGISTRAR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 695 034. BY ADV. SRI.M.RAJAGOPALAN NAIR, SC, THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 04/10/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Mn ...2/- WP(C).No. 24848 of 2011(E) APPENDIX PETITIONER(S) EXHIBITS : EXT.P1 TRUE COPY OF THE ORDER DT.1.9.2011 ISSUED BY THE ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION. EXT.P2 TRUE COPY OF THE APPLICATION DT.26.8.2010 SEEKING AFFILIATION, SUBMITTED BY THE PETITIONER BEFORE THE RESPONDENT. EXT.P3 TRUE COPY OF COVERING LETTER DT.26.08.2010 WITH WHICH EXT.P2 APPLICATION WAS SENT BY THE PETITIONER TO THE RESPONDENT. EXT.P4 TRUE COPY OF THE RECEIPT ISSUED BY THE RESPONDENT UPON RECEIPT OF THE REQUIRED FEES FROM THE PETITIONER. EXT.P5 ORDER DT.21.6.2011 ISSUED BY THE RESPONDENT REJECTING THE APPLICATION FOR AFFILIATION. RESPONDENTS' EXHIBITS : NIL //TRUE COPY// P.A. TO JUDGE Mn P.R.RAMACHANDRA MENON, J ----------------------------------------- WP(C) NO. 24848 OF 2011 ------------------------------------ Dated this the 4th day of October, 2011. JUDGMENT The petitioner has approached this Court with the following prayers: (i) To issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondent to grant affiliation for the B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) Course as requested for by the petitioner in Exts.P2 and P3 without any further delay; (ii) To issue a writ of certiorari or any other writ, direction or order quashing Ext.P5 order rejecting the application for affiliation of the B.Tech (Civil Engineering) Course submitted by the petitioner. (iii) Any other order or direction that is just and necessary in the circumstances of this case. 2. Heard the learned Standing counsel for the respondent University as well. 3. During the course of hearing, it is brought to the notice of this Court by the learned counsel for the petitioner that exactly similar issue has already been considered by this Court in WP(C) No. 17374 of 2011. The learned Judge granted the relief sought for in the following terms as reflected from paragraph 4 and 5 of the judgment dated 20th 2 WP(C) No. 24848/2011 July, 2011. “Para 4. In so far as WP(C) 17374/2011 is concerned, the challenge is against the Ext.P5 order passed by the University rejecting the application made by the petitioner seeking affiliation of the Post Graduate Engineering Course mentioned therein. Ext.P5 order shows that the reason for rejection was that the petitioner failed to produce relevant details along with the application submitted. It is the case of the petitioner that those details were all in fact produced by them. Still having regard to the case now set up by the University in Ext.P5, the request can be ordered to be reconsidered on the petitioner producing the documents mentioned in Ext.P5. 5. Therefore, I dispose of these writ petitions directing that on the petitioner rectifying the inadequacies mentioned in Ext.P5 in WP(C) No.17374/2011 and also on production of the AICTE approval for the current year, the University will reconsider the application for affiliation of the Post Graduate courses sought by the petitioner and orders thereon will be passed as expeditiously as possible, at any rate within four weeks thereafter.” In the above facts and figures, this Court does not find it necessary to take a different turn and this Writ Petition is also disposed of in similar lines as aforesaid; directing the respondent to consider the application of the petitioner for affiliation for the concerned course on curing the defects pointed out in Ext.P5, within four weeks thereafter. P.R.RAMACHANDRA MENON JUDGE dnc