THE HON'BLE MRS JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI & THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE K. C. BHANU WRIT PETITION NO.21801 OF 2005 Dated: 18.10.2005 Between: Villagers of Chintalachenu, Tirupathi Urban, Chittoor District. ..Petitioner And The Station House Officer, Tirupathi (East) Police Station, Chittoor District and five others. .. Respondents. ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Smt. Justice T. Meena Kumari) This is a taken up writ petition basing on the Telegram dated 28.09.2005 sent by the petitioners to issue an order to call for records or remarks from the respondents as to illegal arrest of forty villagers of Chintalachenu, Tirupathi (Urban), Chittoor District. Learned Government Pleader for Home filed counter-affidavit of the 6th respondent. It is stated in the counter-affidavit that on information received on 28.9.2005 at 8.30 a.m. that some miscreants gathered in the fields of Vasundhara Constructions, opposite Hero Honda Show Room, Renigunta Road, Tirupathi and were about to create law and order problem, the 1st respondent along with his staff proceeded towards the fields and found that about 27 persons have gathered at the said place and were designing to commit cognizable offence, and therefore, he took them into custody as a measure to prevent any untoward incident and registered a case in Crime No.184 of 2005 under Section 151 Cr.P.C and subsequently released them. In view of the submission made in the counter-affidavit that all the villagers, who were arrested by the 1st respondent in order to prevent untoward incident, were released on the same day itself, we do not see any ground to proceed further in the matter. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. _________________________ Justice T. Meena Kumari ____________________ Justice K.C. Bhanu Date: 18.10.2005 Nn