THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12371 of 2010 Date: 10.6.2010 Between: Shaik Hussain Basha … Petitioner And The Superintendent of Police, Kurnool District, Kurnool & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri K. Rathangapani Reddy for Sri G. Venkata Reddy Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Home This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12371 of 2010 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of the respondent No.3 in locking the petitioner’s hotel bearing Door No. 10-106, Opp. State Bank of India, Koilakuntla Town and Mandal, Kurnool District as illegal and arbitrary. In his affidavit, the petitioner stated that respondent No.3 came to the hotel on 29.4.2010 and asked the petitioner to close the same and that even before the petitioner responded, he and his staff were dragged on to the road and locked the hotel premises on the ground that the petitioner was conducting matka. At the hearing, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on instructions, submitted that neither Respondent No.3 visited the hotel premises nor locked the same. She also submitted that no case has been registered against the petitioner and that the petitioner shall be free to use the above mentioned premises for running the hotel. This submission of the learned Assistant Government Pleader is placed on record and the writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. _____________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 10.06.2010 pnb