IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU WRIT PETITION No.7111OF 2004 Between: Abbu Bin Mahamood @ Abbu .... PETITIONER AND The Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad, and others. ....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU WRIT PETITION No.7111OF 2004 O R D E R Questioning the continuation of the rowdy sheet opened against him, petitioner filed this writ petition. Learned counsel for the petitioner relying on PULLA BHASKAR V/s. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, WARANGAL[1] contended that since all the cases registered against the petitioner were petty cases and as no cases are registered against him for a period of four years, it cannot be said that petitioner is a habitual offender, and so, continuation of the rowdy sheet against him is improper. The contention of the learned Government Pleader is that inasmuch as the petitioner had subsequent to the year 2002 was involved in four other criminal cases and was convicted in five petty cases and was imposed fine and is putting the people of the locality under fear or threat, so that nobody would come forward to give evidence him due to fear, rowdy sheet is being continued against the petitioner. Without going into the merits of the contentions raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, since the rowdy sheet will have to be renewed by the end of every December, I dispose of this petition with a direction to the respondents to take a judicious decision relating to the continuation of the rowdy sheet against the petitioner for the year 2008 or not. No order as to costs. ------------------------------------ JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU 28th NOVEMBER, 2007 PGS THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU WRIT PETITION No.7111 OF 2004 28TH NOVEMBER, 2007 [1] 1999 (4) ALT 681