JUDGMENT :

Dr. A.K. RATH, J.

This, is an appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent against the judgment and order dated 20.12.2013 passed by the learned Single Judge in WP (C) No. 12869 of 2013, whereby and where under the learned Single Judge upheld the decision dated 23.5.2013 of the Government of Odisha in E & TE&T Department declaring the admission of the appellant's to B.Tech. Course in respondent No. 4 College for the academic year 2012-13 against non-reporting vacant seats illegal and cannot be regularized.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the short facts in the case of appellants are that they have qualified in the entrance test conducted by the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination Committee for the year 2012 (hereinafter referred to as "the OJEE-2012") and All India Engineering Entrance Examination, 2012 (hereinafter referred to as "the AIEEE-2012") conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education. They are merit rank holder students. After closure of the 2nd round counselling of the OJEE-2012, seats in various private engineering colleges remained vacant because of the non-reporting of the students in the said colleges. Forty-seven seats in respondent No.4-College remai