High Court · 2025

Judgment

2. Osmania University, Hyderabad, Rep. by its Registrar. The State of Telanggna. Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. ...PETITIONERS ,..RESPONDENTS

Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of lndia praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus a) Declaring the action of Respondents in not permitting the petitioner lnstitution from running and offering the course of B.Ed., with an intake of 100 seats for the Academic Year 2025-26 despite the Petitioner lnstitution having the necessary faculty, facilities and infrastructure for the same as being arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional and set aside the same. b) consequently, direct the Respondents herein to treat the petitioner lnstitution as a validly affiliated and approved lnstitution for the Academic year 2025-26, for the course of B.Ed., with an intake '100 seats as sanctionerd and approved by thr) SRC NCTE for the academic year 2025-26. lA NO: 1 OF 202s Petition under Section 151 CPC praying fhat in the :ircumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the petition, the High Court may be pleased to direct the Respondents to take steps to conduct inspect on of the Petitioner lnstituiion as per the representation submitted by the Petitioner lnstitution dated

09.09.2025 and 12.O9.2025, pending disposal of the writ pet tion Counsel for the Petitioner: SRI A.BHUVAN SUNDER REDD'/ Counsel for the Respondent No.1: SRI MALIPEDDI SRlNlVlrS REDDY, SC FOR OU Counsel for the Respondent No.2: GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION The Court made the following: ORDER THE HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUREPALLI NANDA WRIT PETITION No.29O93 OL2O25 o RDER: Heard Sri A.Bhuvan Sunder Reddy, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, Sri Malipeddi Srinivas Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for Osmania University appearing on behalf of the respondent No.1 and the learned Government Pleader for Higher Educataon appearing on behalf of the respondent No.2. 2 h n rsa h h Draver as under: "..to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus: a) Declaring the action of Respondents in not permitting the Petitioner institution from running and oFfering the course of B.Ed., with an intake oF 100 seats for the Academic Year 2025-26 despite the Petitioner Institution having the necessary faculty, facilities and infrastructure For the same as being arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional and set aside the same. b) Consequently, direct the Respondents herein to treat the Petitioner Institutron as a validly affiliated and approved Institution for the AcademicYear 2025-26, for n ) \'-i 2 SN,J W.P.No.29O93 of 2025 the course of B.Ed., with an lntake sanctioned and approved by the SRC academic yeat 2025-26 and, 100 seats as NCTE: for the c) pass any other order or orders

3. The case of the petitioners, in brief, as Der the averments made in tlrc affidavit filed by ther petitioners in suooort of the Dresent Writ Petition is as under: i) The Petitioner No.1-Mohammed Rafiudclin Memorial Educational Society, is a registered societ / promoting education in Telangana, and the 2nd Petitioner institution- M.A. K.Azad College of Education located at Chinthapally Guda, Ibrahimpatnam, Rangareddy District wai established in the year 2003 to offer the B.Ed. course. ii) The 2nd petitioner' institution obtained N(lTE approval and Government permission through G.O.Rt.\o,555 dated

16.06.2003, and later, in 2014, minority status was granted. Though recognition was withdrawn in 2019, the Appellate Authority and NCTE restored it vide orders dated 16.12.2020 and 04.02.2022 for 100 seats. J sN,l W.P.No.29093 of 2025 iii) For the Academic Year 2025-26, the Petitioners submitted several representations to the Respondent University seeking re-inspection for grant of affiliation. However, the respondent-University failed to act upon the same. Aggrieved by the inaction of the respondents, the petitioners filed the present writ petition. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners

4. submits that the petitioners had recently made a representation to the Vice-Cha ncellor, Osmania University, Hyderabad on 09.09.2025, and again made another representation to the Registrar, Osmania University, Hyderabad on 12.O9.2025. Though the said representations were duly acknowledged on the said dates, no action however had been initiated thereon till as on date. Therefore, the grievance of the petitioners, as put forth in the said representations should be considered by the respondents herein.

5. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner further submits that the limited relieF petitioner seeks in the present writ petition is a direction to respondent No.1 to \-! 4 SN,J W.P.hlo.29093 ot 2O2s consider the request of the petitioners for grant of affiliation to M.A. K. Azad College of Education, Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy District, in accordance to raw, within a reasonabre period.

6. The learned counset appearing orr respondent Nos.1 and 2 do not dispulle the said submission made by the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner. behalf of

7. TAKIN G INTocoNs DERATI ON: a) The aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, b) The submissions made by the learned counsel appearing. on behalf of the petitioners, tearned Standing Counsel for Osmania University aprpearing on behalf of the respondent No.1 and thre learned Government pleader for Higher Education appearing on behalf of the respondent No.2, \ \ 5 sN,J W.P.No.29093 of 2025 The fact that no orders had been passed on c) petitioners' rePresentations, dated 09.O9.2025 and L2.O9.2025, seeking grant of permission to the petitioners' Institution for running and offering the course of B.Ed with an intake of '1OO' seats for the Academic Year 2O25-26 till as on date. The writ petition is disoosed of. directinq consider the request of the resDo 1 oetiti Colle r t of affiliation to M.A.K. Azad of Educatio n, Ibrahimpatnam, Ranqa Reddv Distri ct, by d No.2's colleqe for n uctinq an insoection of oe itioner the qrant o affiliation for the Academi Year 2O25- to take a decision on the rdance to ! within a Deriod of ten (1O) avs from the date of receipt of a co v of this mmunicate fha decisi no +lra s dated 09.O9.2025 and t$t oetitio d n r s ,il 1,2.09.2025 t the petitioners herein. However. there shall be no order as to sts. \ \ 6 SN,J W.P.No.29093 of 2025 Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this Writ Petition, shall stand closed //TRUE COPY// ..SD/. A.H.IS. GOWRI SHANKAR ASSIST4 NT REGISTRAR The Registrar, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad, State of Telangana. GTION OFFTCER SE J One CC to SRI A.BHUVAN SUNDER REDDY Advocate [OPUC] One CC to SRI MALIPEDDI SRINIVAS REDDY, SC FOR OU [OPUC] Two CCs to GP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, High Oourt for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad [OUT] Two CD Copies To, 1 2 3 4 5 6 BSR GJP HIGH COURT DATED:0911012025 CC TODAY ORDER WP.No.29093 of 2025 <.\_ i) -...;:, 1). : {,,\)r 't\ 4 [ti l[6 : '7 I ,..i,i '.4 DISPOSING OF THE WRIT PETITION, WITHOUT COSTS t0 { t4