B.B.S. College of Pharmacy and Polytechnic Prayagraj Thru. Authorized Signatory Pradeep Kumar Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. of Technical Education, Lucknow and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
AHC Lucknow Bench WRIT-C 415/2025 (neutral 2025:AHC-LKO:2446), decided 15.01.2025, Manish Mathur J.: B.B.S. College of Pharmacy and Polytechnic Prayagraj; certiorari against State order dated 06.01.2025 (Deptt. of Technical Education) and AKTU order dated 13.01.2025; mandamus for B.Pharm/B-Pharma affiliation, academic session 2024-2025/2024-25; Pharmacy Council of India recognition intact; extension of B Pharm counselling dates; petition allowed in terms of judgment and order dated 03.01.2025 in bunch led by WRIT - C No. - 19 of 2025 (orders 833923 and 833903 of 2024 dated 26.12.2024 there impugned were quashed; reconsideration of affiliation per University recommendations and PCI approval).
What did the court decide?
Writ petition allowed; the relief granted to petitioner-institutions in the bunch led by WRIT - C No. - 19 of 2025 (judgment and order dated 03.01.2025) is extended to the present petitioner in the same terms, namely quashing of the orders impugned in that bunch and directions to the opposite parties to reconsider grant of affiliation in terms of the recommendations of the University and the approval granted by the Pharmacy Council of India.