THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25883 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in continuing the rowdy sheets opened against the petitioners as illegal and arbitrary. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, it is stated by the petitioners that they are permanent residents of Pulaguthipalli Village, Guntakal Mandal, Anantapur District and eking out livelihood by agriculture. It is further stated that during elections, they were falsely implicated in Crime No.92 of 1996 on the file of Guntakal Rural Police Station for the offences under Sections 135(1) and 136(2)(B) of the Representation of People Act read with Section 188 IPC. It is also stated that they were already acquitted by the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Guntakal, by judgment, dated 06.12.1997, and in spite of the same, though no further cases are registered against them, the respondents are continuing the rowdy sheets opened against them without any basis. This Court at the first instance, issued notice before admission on 27.11.2009 and further, when the matter came up for hearing on 05.07.2010, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home appearing for the respondents produced before this Court a letter, dated 03.12.2009, addressed to the Government Pleader by the Station House Officer of Guntakal Rural Police Station, and submitted that only one case was registered against the petitioners i.e. C.C.No.92 of 1996 and they were acquitted by the competent criminal Court by judgment, dated 06.12.1997. Although there is no involvement of the petitioners in any other crimes, so as to know on what basis rowdy sheets are being continued against them, the matter was adjourned to enable the learned Government Pleader to file counter-affidavit. Even by this time, no counter-affidavit is filed, but it is stated by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home appearing for the respondents that no further cases are registered against the petitioners and in the solitary case registered against them, they were already acquitted from the charges framed against them. As per the Police Standing Orders, involvement of the accused in an isolated case cannot be the basis to open rowdy sheet against them. In any event, once a rowdy sheet is opened, it is to be examined at the end of the year by assessing the involvement of such listed persons in any other further crimes or not but such sheets cannot be continued without assessing the involvement of the persons against whom rowdy sheets were opened. As it is not in dispute that when the petitioners were involved in C.C.No.92 of 1996 on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate, Guntakal, Anantapur District, the rowdy sheets were opened against them and they were already acquitted in the said C.C., and as it is stated that they were not involved in any other further crimes, this Court is of the view that it is evidently a fit case to quash the rowdy sheets opened against the petitioners. For the aforesaid reasons, the writ petition is allowed and the rowdy sheets opened against the petitioners on the file of Guntakal Rural Police Station are hereby quashed. No order as to costs. ______________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 7th DECEMBER, 2010. kvni