IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 621 of 2009 Between: Punna Uday S/o.Late Nagabhushanam M.Yadagiri, S/o.Damodhar,aged 40 years R/o.Bollepally ofg Kattangur Mandal, Nalgonda District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education and Convenor for IIIT, Government of AP., Hyderabad 2 Board of Secondary Education, rep.by its Secretary AP 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 will be pleased to issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the 1st respondent in not considering the representation dated 11.10.2008 submitted by the petitioner for admission into IIIT as illegal, and arbitrary, and consequently direct the respondent No.1 herein to consider the case of the petitioner for admission into IIIT pursuant to the representation of the petitioner and to grant such other relief or reliefs as this Hon`ble court deems fit and proper in the circumstances of the case Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.C.VENKAT YADAV Counsel for the Respondents.: GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed by the petitioner questioning the inaction on the part of the respondents in considering his representation dated 11.10.2008 seeking admission into IIIT on the basis of the corrected marks memo issued by the Board of Secondary Education, Hyderabad. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Government Pleader for Higher Education and at their request the writ petition is taken up for final disposal at the admission stage itself. The case of the petitioner is that he appeared for the 10th class in the month of March, 2008 and secured 493 marks out of 600 marks. Since he got only 66 marks in mathematics though he expected more than 90, he submitted a requisition to the Director of Government Examinations on 23.9.2008 for recounting of the marks and accordingly after recounting, it was found that he, in fact, got 96 marks in mathematics whereas it was counted as 66 earlier and accordingly the corrected marks memo was issued to him after following the procedure. The grievance of the petitioner is that due to the mistake crept in the counting of marks in mathematics paper, he was deprived of his admission into IIIT as the last candidate who got admission secured 512 marks and as after recounting of the marks, he got marks more than 512, he made a representation on 11.10.2008 to the 1st respondent to consider his case afresh for admission into IIIT by duly enclosing the revised SSC marks memo but so far no orders have been passed on the said representation. It is stated that still there are certain vacancies available in IIIT in the Rajiv Gandhi University. The learned Government Pleader for Higher Education appearing for the 1st respondent submits that since the petitioner’s representation dated 11.10.2008 to consider his case in the available vacancies for admission into IIIT is still pending consideration, instead of this Court going into the merits of the matter, the 1st respondent may be directed to consider the said representation, for which course of action, the learned counsel for the petitioner also agreed. In the circumstances, without going into the merits of the matter, the 1st respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the representation of the petitioner seeking admission into IIIT in the available seats in accordance with law expeditiously. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.22.01.2009 msv