IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.10292 of 2008 BETWEEN Dr. Cartik Ram Kothari. ... PETITIONER AND The Government of A.P., rep. By its Secretary, Home Department, Secretariat and another. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. J.C. FRANCIS Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following order: ORDER: This writ petition is filed questioning the action of the respondents in issuing RED corner notice against the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary. 2. There is no representation on behalf of the petitioner. 3. The petitioner is an accused in Cr.No.37 of 2006 on the file of the second respondent police station and in the aforesaid crime the petitioner is arrayed as accused No.1. After completion of investigation, the charge sheet was filed before the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, which is numbered as C.C.No.420 of 2006. The said Court had issued non- bailable warrants (NBW) against the petitioner – A1 and directed the police to execute the same. As the petitioner was staying in USA, the Additional Director General of Police, CID, Hyderabad was addressed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, requesting to issue A- Series Red Corner Notice against the petitioner. Based on such request, the Red Corner Notice was issued. 4. When the matter was taken up for hearing, it is represented by the learned Government Pleader for the respondents that during the pendency of the writ petition, petitioner – A1 appeared and he filed an application to recall the NBW’s and the same was allowed. Consequently, the Red Corner Notice issued against the petitioner was also cancelled. 5. In view of the cancellation of Red Corner Notice, the issuance of which is under challenge, no cause survives for adjudication in view of the subsequent events. The writ petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J August 18, 2011 DSK