VELLORE EDUCATIONAL TRUST Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner, 'Vellore Educational Trust' is a Trust registered by the Registrar, Registration Department at Vellore which is in Tamil Nadu. It wants to establish an Engineering College in Andhra Pradesh for the benefit of Tamil minorities.

(2.) There is no dispute and indeed there cannot be any dispute that Tamils are minority community in Andhra Pradesh. The petitioner trust in order to conserve and preserve the language, script and culture of the Tamil speaking community particularly of those who have been living in the adjoining districts made an application to the first and second respondent on May 24, 1984 seeking permission u/S. 20 of the Andhra Pradesh Education Act, 1982 to establish a private engineering college with affiliation to Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. As the respondents did not take any action on the said application, the petitioner trust gave several reminders to the respondents to consider the application. The petitioner also made a written application to Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati on June 22, 1985 for according affliation/recognition to the Maruti College of Engineering, Palluru, Chittoor District which is a unit of the petitioner's trust. The Registrar, Sri Venkateswara University, the third respondent by his letter dt. Aug. 12, 1985 rejected the application for affiliation on the ground that the question of granting affiliation to the petitioner's Maruti College of Engineering will be considered only on production of permission letter from the Government of Andhra Pradesh for starting of a private engineering college at Palluru.

(3.) The petitioner filed a writ petition before the High Court for a writ of certiorari for quashing the decision of the University and also for a direction against the State Government to grant permission u/S. 20 of the said Act and also for other reliefs. The said writ petition No. 12215 of 1985 was dismissed as premature by a single Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh by observing as follows:-