Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J.

The petitioner appeared in the Joint Entrance Examination (Main)-2018 as Other Backward Classes (OBC)/Non Creamy Layer (NCL) candidate and passed the same. He was called for counselling on 2.7.2018. However, his seat was cancelled because instead of OBC/NCL category, he was treated in the general category. It is in this background that the petitioner has prayed for writ of certiorari for quashing Annexure P-4 seeking further direction to admit him in B. Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering), for which he had been selected as OBC candidate.

2. Respondent No.2 has contested the petition by filing reply, wherein preliminary objection regarding maintainability has been raised on the ground that respondent No.2 is just a participating and reporting Institute working under Joint Seat Allocation Board (JoSAA) and Central Seal Allocation Board (CSAB). As a matter of fact, after framing the scheme/guidelines and criteria, Joint Entrance Examination2018 for eligibility of admissions in IITs, NITs and IITs etc was conducted by JEE (Main) Secretariat, Central Board of Secondary Education, H-149, Sector 63, Noida, UP 201309 and after declaration of r