IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 4718 of 2009 Between: Gantigampu Venkateswarlu (Hindu) S/o. Peddi Ramulu, R/o. Door No. 4-1-114, Gandhi Bomma Centre, Lambadipet, Vijayawada - 9. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of A.P. Rep. by its Commissioner of Police Dept. of Home Affairs, Vijayawada - 520 001. 2 The Station House Officer II Town Police Station Kothapet, Vijayawada. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue an appropriate Writ order or direction more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondent in continuation of rowdy/suspect sheet in the name of the Petitioner as arbitrary, illegal and capricious and violative of the A.P. Police Standing Order apart from vioaltive of Fundamental Rights guaranteed under Art. 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondent to remove the name of the Petitioner from the rolls of Rowdy Sheet forthwith. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.SAI GANGADHAR CHAMARTY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following: O R D E R:- The petitioner asserts that he has been doing money-lending business in Vijayawada for the last seventeen years without any remark or breach of peace affecting the integrity of the conduct. While so, the respondents, in the year 2005, opened Rowdy/Suspect Sheet against him. He states that for the last four years no case is pending against him nor is there any allegation of his involvement in any offence, and it is his grievance that despite no case being pending against him, the respondents are still continuing the petitioner’s name on the rolls of Rowdy/Suspect sheet and summoning him frequently to the police station on the ground of suspicion. On instructions, the learned Government pleader for Home appearing for the respondents has produced Proceedings dated 06.01.2009 of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, West Zone, Vijayawada, which indicates closure of Rowdy/Suspect Sheet opened against the petitioner on the ground that no cases are pending against him for the last five years. Since the Rowdy/Suspect sheet opened against the petitioner, vide proceedings dated 06.01.2009 of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, West Zone, Vijayawada, has been closed, no further orders are necessary in this writ petition, and the same is accordingly closed. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J 30th March, 2009 bcj