ORDER :

1. This writ petition is filed against the Order passed by the Director, National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NITW), vide No.NITW/Dir/Vig./2019/4460 dated 28/29.01.2019, canceling the Ph.D admission of the petitioner-Shri A. Chandra Mohan, and the consequential proceedings dated 30.07.2019, 18.11.2019 and the final Senate proceedings dated 03.01.2020 confirming the expulsion of the petitioner from Ph.D course.

2. Heard Ms. Nandita Guha, learned counsel for the petitioner, Smt. Vani Reddy, G.P. for Education Department, and Sri T. Mahender Rao, learned counsel appearing for the respondent-institute. Learned counsel for both sides sought to advance arguments at length both on facts and law. This Court asked the learned counsels to submit a brief note of their arguments along with judgments relied and the same are placed on file.

3. The facts of the case, in a nutshell, are that the petitioner joined the respondent-Institute as a Junior Research Fellow for DST-SERB Project on 12.12.2017 and has been subsequently enrolled for the Ph.D programme in the Academic Year 2017