K. SUBBA RAO, C.J. : -

This is a petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India for issuing a Writ of mandamus directing the respondents to act in accordance with G. O. Ms. No. 1022 Health, Dated 30-5-1957 and to admit the petitioner in the Medical College, Visakhapatnam.

2. The petitioner is the son of Katragadda Raghuramaiah, who is a resident of Patamata, Vijayawada, Krishna District. The petitioner was born at Vijayawada on 17th December, 1939. Soon after the birth of the petitioner, the petitioners mother Anasuyamma was taken seriously ill and her mother took her along with the child to Visakhapatnam for medical treatment. Anasuyamma was treated for over a period of two years at Visakhapatnam and even thereafter the petitioner continued to live with his grand-mother at Visakhapatnam. He was also educated in St. Josephs Convent, Waltair in standards lower K. G. to second (inclusive) from January, 1945 to July, 1948.

It appears that, from 1948 to 1956, he was studying in Vijayawada and was going for the vacations to Visakhapatnam. He passed his Intermediate examination in the year 1956 and secured 60.2 per cent of the marks in his group-Biology, Chemistry and Physic