HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.16330 of 2010 Date: July 30, 2010 Between: Patibandla Ramakrishna … Petitioner And 1. The Superintendent of Police, Guntur District and another. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.16330 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner assails the action of the police authorities in continuing Rowdy-Sheet No.73-A category opened in his name on the file of the Station House Officer, I Town P.S. Tenali, Guntur District on the ground that the same is contrary to the Police Standing Orders. 2. It is the case of the petitioner that he was implicated in Sessions Case No.40 of 2007 but after a full-fledged trial he was acquitted of all charges on 26.12.2008. However, owing to his involvement in the said case the police authorities opened a rowdy-sheet on 10.6.2007 vide Rowdy-Sheet No.73-A category. The petitioner assails the same on the ground that it is not in conformity with the guidelines stipulated in the Police Standing Order 742 (presently, Police Standing Order 601). 3. Sri M.L. Ali, learned counsel for the petitioner, relying on the judgments of this Court in Majid Babu and another v. Home Secretary, Government of A.P. and others[1] and S. Satyanarayana v. State of A.P.[2] stated that unless the person is involved in at least two or more offences, the police are not entitled to open a rowdy-sheet in his name. 4. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on instructions, admitted that the petitioner was only involved in one single offence as stated by him. Therefore, the requirement for opening a rowdy-sheet as laid down by this Court is not made out. In that view of the matter, the action of the police authorities in continuing a rowdy- sheet in the name of the petitioner is legally unsustainable. 5. The writ petition is accordingly allowed directing the police authorities to close Rowdy-Sheet No.73-A category, opened in the name of the petitioner as the same is contrary to the relevant Police Standing Order and the orders of this Court. There shall be no order as to costs. ___________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: July 30, 2010. BSB [1] 1987 (2) ALT 904 [2] 1999 (8) ALT 249