Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:17178 Court No. - 8 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 2909 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dr. K.L. Patel College Of Professional Studies, Prayagraj Thru. Authorized Signatory Anurag Patel Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Technical Education, Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ajay Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Atul Kumar Dwivedi,Ravi Singh Hon'ble Jaspreet Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. Notice on behalf of respondent no. 1 has been accepted by the office of the learned Chief Standing Counsel. Sri Ravi Singh, learned counsel has accepted notice on behalf of respondent no. 2 and Sri Atul Kumar Dwivedi, learned counsel has accepted notice on behalf of respondent no. 3. By means of the instant petition, the petitioner prays for the following main reliefs:- "i. To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the Government order dated 17.02.2025 passed by Opp-party No. 1 in so far as it denies Approval of Affiliation to petitioner' institution for B.Pharma Course for the academic year 2024-2025 as also the consequential order dated 19.02.2025 passed by the Opp-party No. 3, the true copies of which are, contained as Annexure-1 to the writ petition. ii. To issue a writ, order of direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the recommendations dated 10.02.2025 of the Affiliation Committee of the University in so far it recommends for not granting the Affiliation to the petitioner' institution for B. Pharm Course for the academic year 2024- 2025, the true copy of which is contained as Annexure-2 to the writ petition. iii. To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the Opp-party No. 1 and 3 to grant Approval of Affiliation/Affiliation to the petitioner institution for the academic year 2024-2025 expeditiously before start of admission process directly by the institutions for B. Pharm Course 2024-2025 and to allow admission of students and their registration with the Opp-party No. 3 for examination of students in B. Pharm Course of study as per approval granted by the Pharmacy Council of India, New Delhi." The learned counsel for the petitioner and for the State as well as the respondent nos. 2 and 3 respectively are in agreement that the issue in question which has been raised in the instant petition, was the subject matter of similarly instituted petitions with leading Petition bearing Writ-C No. 1952 of 2025 (Islami Fund Najibabad, Bijnor Through Secretary Mohd. Ayyub and 3 others Vs. State of U.P. and others) and the said bunch of petitions came to be decided by a coordinate Bench of this Court by means of judgment dated 10.03.2025. It has been submitted that the case of the present petitioner is alomost identical to the ones which were decided in the said bunch of petitions which came to be decided on 10.03.2025, as mentioned above. Since there is no dispute regarding the factual aspect of the matter that the petitioner is also similarly situate with those institutions who had preferred their respective petitions and were part of the bunch which was decided on 10.03.2025. Hence, with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is also disposed of with a direction that the petitioner shall be also granted the same benefit as granted to other writ petitioners who were part of the said bunch in terms of paragraph 38 of judgment dated 10.03.2025 passed in leading Petition bearing Writ-C No. 1952 of 2025 (Islami Fund Najibabad, Bijnor Through Secretary Mohd. Ayyub and 3 others Vs. State of U.P. and others). Order Date :- 26.3.2025 Asheesh/- Digitally signed by :- ASHEESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench