HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N. RAVI SHANKAR Crl.P. No. 2543 of 2009 DATED: 14.12.2011 Between: Vajhala Sai Ram Sarma .. Petitioner And State S.H.O., I Town Police Station rep. by its Public Prosecutor .. Respondents O R D E R:- 1. Heard Sri T. Ravi Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Venkateswara Rao learned counsel representing the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. 2. This petition is filed for quashing a Notice dated 08.04.2009 said to have been issued by the Station House Officer of I Town Police Station, Vijayawada calling upon the petitioner to appear before him in connection with Crime No. 340 of 1999 of I Town Police Station, Vijayawada. As already mentioned supra this notice is dated 08.04.2009. 3. The petitioner’s counsel submits that the petitioner was already charge-sheeted in the aforesaid Crime that was registered as C.C. No. 654 of 1999 on the file of II Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, Vijayawada and that the said case has already ended in acquittal on 17.11.2000 and that acquittal has also become final. The petitioner’s grievance is that despite disposal of the above case, the police station concerned has still issued a notice to him in the aforesaid Crime No. 340 of 1999 of I Town Police Station, Vijayawada. 4. Sri Venkateswara Rao submits that his instructions from the police station concerned are that the aforesaid crime has already been closed and it is not pending and that the above notice has been issued by mistake. 5. Recording the submissions made by both counsel and in the above circumstances, this Criminal Petition is allowed and the impugned notice is set aside. __________________ N. RAVI SHANKAR, J 14.12.2011 bcj