High Court · 2025

...RES'ONDENTS Petition unddr Article 226 ot lhe Constitution of lndia praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith' the High Court may be pleased to issue a direction or order or Writ more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, a. Declaring the action of Respondent No' 1 in not issuing the necessary Government Orders, and the action of Respondent No 3 in not initiating steps for the grant of No Obiection Certificate (NOC) and affiliation for the newly approved B-Tech programmes in the 2nd Petitioner lnstitution' despite the PetitionershavingobtaineddueapprovalfromtheAlllndiaCouncilforTechnical Education (AICTE) for the Academic Year 2025-26 ' as being wholly arbitrary' illegal, u nconstitutional, and violative of the fundamental rights of the Petitioners guaranteed under Article 30(1) of the Constitution of lndia' apart from being in gross violation of tlie aw laid by the Hon'ble Supreme court an,J set :rside all such actions b. consecrue,] y, direct the Respondents herein to treat the petitioner lnstitution as a varic ry permitted, affiriated and approved r.stitr tion from the Academic Year 2,)2!,-,26, for all the courses of the 2nd p,ltitic,n er lnstitution including the nen'ry zrpproved B.Tech programmes as dury sirrctioned and approved by the AIC-f - lA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition ur derr sie,ction 1s1 cpc praying that in the circurnsta rr;es stated in the affidavit fired in surrFrort of the petition, the High court may b,: pr.ased to direct Respondent No. 3 r'o fcrlhwith take necessary steps for the grarrt,cf affiriation and issuance of No cbjection certificate (Noc) in favour of ttre I,nc petitioner lnstitution for the B Te:h programmes approved by AICTE for the Ar::rdemic year 2025-26 includin g bv r:onsidering and acting upon the represer t:rtion of the Petitioners dated 02.0t.12025 pending disposal of the writ petition lA NO: 2 OF 2025 No1 Ord:r Petition unrje- lj:<:tion 1S1 CpC praying that in the circun,starrc:s stated in the affidavit filed ir -.;uporrrt of the petition, the High Court may be pls1.s6 to direct to iorthwith take all necessary steps for Respondent issuance of the il favour of the petitioners in respect Government of the B.Tech programmes apprrv'|3. by the ArcrE for the Academic year 2025-?_6 ircruding by considering and a :tir g upon the representation of the F'etiti,.rrrers dated 02.05.2025 pendirg lrs:osal of the writ petition. Counsel for the Petitiorrers: SRI TARUN G. REDDY Counsel for the Resporrdent Nos.1,2 & 5: Gp FOR HIGHER EDUCAI.ION counsel for the Respordent No.3: sRr MALTPEDDT sRrNrvAS neooi, sc ron OU Counsel for the Res;torrdent No.4: SRI M.MEHBOOB ALl, SC FOR ATCTE The Court made the foltowing: ORDER HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY WRIT PETITION No.16831 0F 2025 ORDER: (ORAL) Heard Mr. Tarun G. Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners; learned Government Pleader for Higher Education appearing for respondent No.1; Mr. Malipeddi Srinivas Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for Osmania University, appearing for respondent No'3; and Mr. M' Mehboob Ali, learned Standing Counsel for All lndia Council for Technical Education (AICTE), appearing for respondent No'4, and perused the material available on record.

2. Grievance of the petitioners is that respondent Nos'1 and 3 are not initiating steps for grant of No Objection Certificate (NOC) and affiliation for the newly afiproved B.Tech programmes in petitioner No.2 lnstitution, despite the petitioners having obtained due approval from respondent No.4 - AICTE for the Academic Year 2025-26'

3. Learned Standing Counsel appearing for respondent No'3' learned standing counsel appearing for respondent No.4 and learned Government Pleader appearing for respondent No'1 submitted that the representation of the petitioners will be duly considered and appropriate orders will be passed. ,/ \ I I 2

4. ln v er,n' rf the above, the writ petition is disposed of directing respondenl Nos'l and 3 to consider the representalron of the petitioners for r;ranting affiliation and NOC for the rewlv approved B.Tech prcrgrarr'n1es in petitioner No.2 lnstitution, and pasi; orders, in accordance r,vittr law, within a period of three weeks from ttre date of receipt of a crtpl,r:f this order. No order as to costs. As a seqr-el thereto, miscellaneous applications, if ar.ry, pending in this writ petition stand closed. SD/. N RAJAGOPAL DEPUN'REGISTRAR . SECTION OFFICER ecreta riat fiiu ildings, \ To //TRUE COPY// J 4 'l . Princip al Secret;rry, Higher Education DePartmerft, 2. Commissioner c Hyderabac, S;tale of Tel f Techn Education, Depa rtment of Technica [:ducation, State of Terla rgzrna, 2nd Floor, Vidya B hawan, Nampal y, Hyder;rl>ad The Reg islra r, C)smania University, Hyderabad, The Sec reiary, l\l India Council for Technical Education. ln lira t3andhl Sport Comolex. LP. E::;tate. New Delhi. --e:langana State Council for Hig-her Educati':n, 'St Floor, JNTU Masab'Te nk CSmpus, Mahaveer Marg; Opp. Mahaveer Flospital, Masab Tarrk H1'derabad.

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6. One CC to SRI 'L\RUN G. REDDY, Advocate [OPUC] 7. i*; ccs to rit' FoR HIGHER EDUCATION, High CoLrrt for the sitate of Telangana, at HYderabad. I B. ONE CC tO SAI MALIPEDDI 9. One CC tc SRI VI.MEHBOO 10.Two CD CoPies ouTl sRlNlvAS REDDY, SC FOR C)U [Ot')UCl B ALI, SC FOR AICTE [OPUCI PSK PSK ) "l HIGH COURT DATED:19t06t2025 C:C TODAY ORDER WP.No.168lt1 of 2O2S l'\ J 1 ti ,l i rl ?,125 .. a: DISPOSING OF'THE WRIT PETITION WITHOUT CTOSTS rl, _) t- d ,A E