( 1 ). Rule. With the consent of the parties, writ petition is taken up for disposal.

( 2 ). The petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking a direction to set aside and quash the entire selection and admission process, made by the respondents for Masters of Finance Control (MFC) and master of Business Economic (MBE) courses for the academic session 2002-03. The writ petition also seeks for issuance of a writ of mandamus to prepare a list of candidates, who have been declared successful in the written test and to conduct the group discussion and interview afresh in accordance with the relevant rules before the commencement of the academic session. Academic session commenced on 16. 7. 2002 and considerable part of the first year course is stated to have already been covered and this prayer to that extent is infructuous.

( 3 ). The main grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents had in the prospectus indicated total number of available seats as 30, which were likely to be raised to 40. During the selection and admission process against 23 seats in the general category, 250 candidates were called, for 5 seats of SC candidates 55 candidates were called and fo