ORDER :- I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner on this petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution.

2. By this petition the petitioner seeks issue of a writ of mandamus to the Government of India through their Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, Shri B.K. Kaul, I.C.S., New Delhi, commanding the opposite party to accept the petition of the petitioner under Art. 14, Constitution of India and thereby declare him eligible for enrolment as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or at least admission to the final examination for the said enrolment. A preliminary point that arises is whether a writ of mandamus can be issued to the Government of India through the Deputy Secretary at New Delhi by this Court.

The petition and the affidavit filed in support of it show that the petition of the petitioner which has not been accepted by the opposite party and which the petitioner says was a petition under Art. 14 of the Constitution was presented to the opposite party at New Delhi and was rejected there. The writ of mandamus sought is that the opposite party should accept the prayer in that petition. The order of acceptance of the p

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