HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN

ORDER

Head Mr. M.V. Sai Teja Kambalapally, learned counsel for the petitioner and Dr. P. B. Vijay Kumar, learned Senior Counsel representing Mrs. A.V.S Laxmi, learned Standing Counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 5.

2. The present writ petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the impugned orders dated 19.02.2025 passed by respondentNo.4 (Appellate Authority), dismissing the appeal preferred by the petitioner against the orders dated 19.11.2024 of the respondent No.3 whereby the petitioner’s admission to Ph.D., Programme in the Department of English Language Education, Regional Campus, EFL University, Lucknow, was cancelled, and his name struck off from the Rolls of the Institution, including denial of re-admission, as arbitrary, illegal, violative of the principles of natural justice, and contrary to the directions issued by this Court in W.P. No.

29304 of 2024 and W.P. No. 35854 of 2024.

3. Facts of the case i) The petitioner was provisionally admitted to the Ph.D.

Programme in English Language Education for the academic year 2024–25 at the Regional Campus of The English and Foreign Lan