HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU W.P.No. 16287 of 2010 Date: 08-10-2010 Between: Prathipati Suresh ……….. Petitioner and The Superintendent of Police, Krishna at Machilipatnam and two others. ………. Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU W.P.No. 16287 of 2010 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus declaring the action of the respondents 2 and 3 in deleting Section 3(1)(x) of SCs & STs (POA) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) in the remand report, dated 01-07- 2010, in Crime No.119 of 2010, dated 08-06-2010, on the file of the third respondent, as illegal and arbitrary. There is no necessity of going into all the details. In the counter filed by the third respondent, it is stated that a case in Crime No.119 of 2010 under Sections 324, 323 read with 34 of IPC and Section 3(1)(x) of the Act was registered on 08-06-2010 against one Bandaru Mahesh and others. However, the second respondent addressed a letter to the Superintendent of Police, Krishna District, on 29-06-2010 requesting to grant permission to delete the offence under Section 3(1)(x) of the Act and to charge the accused for the offences under Sections 147, 148, 323 and 324 read with 34 of IPC. Accordingly, the Superintendent of Police, Krishna District, accorded permission vide C.No.2860/C3/2010, dated 01-07-2010 to delete the offence under the Act and to arrest the accused under the IPC provisions and as per the express memorandum of the second respondent vide C.No.99/G1.Memo/SDO-N/2010, dated 01-07-2010, the third respondent arrested A-1 to A-9 on 01-07-2010 at 7-00 PM and produced before the concerned Court. In view of the above circumstances, nothing survives in this writ petition for further adjudication. Accordingly, the writ petition is closed. ____________ C.V. RAMULU, J Date: 08-10-2010 YCR