1. Heard Mr.P.Venugopal, learned senior counsel, Mr.M.Sree Rama Rao for petitioners and Mr.Taddi Nageshwara Rao for respondents.

2. The petitioners pray for Mandamus declaring the action of respondents in digitally (online) evaluating the answer sheets of petitioners, as bad in law and direct the respondents to produce answer scripts of petitioners together with supplementary answer sheets so as to examine whether verifying/totaling of answer sheets has been properly done or not; verify whether all the answer sheets have been properly uploaded or downloaded at the time of evaluation done by the evaluators and consequently direct respondents to manually evaluate the answer sheets of petitioners.

3. The prayer and the circumstances for filing the writ petitions are substantially same in the batch of writ petitions and for convenience, I refer to the allegations and counter in W.P.No.26929 of 2016.

Allegations in affidavit:

4. The petitioners are pursuing P.G. Medical Degree/Diploma Course in respondents 3 to 10/Colleges. The petitioners appeared in the final examinations conducted by 2nd respondent/University in May/June, 2016. The stand of petitioners is that hitherto the answer