(1.) At the interlocutory stage, the Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties.
(2.) This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to direct the respondents to close rowdy sheet No. 293/Rowdy/2007, dated 31-03-2007, opened against the petitioner.
(3.) The petitioner is a press reporter by profession. He was working in Vartha telugu daily newspaper. According to him, he wrote a news item against respondent No. 3. The petitioner alleged that as an act of reprisal, respondent No. 3 registered Crime No. 13 of 2007 by falsely implicating him as accused No. 2 therein on 07-02-2007 and later, opened a rowdy sheet against him on 31-03-2007 and the same was followed by registration of another Crime being Crime No. 61 of 2007 on 18-06-2007 binding over the petitioner under Section 110(e) of Cr.P.C. According to the petitioner, the action of respondent No. 3 in opening a rowdy sheet is wholly vindictive and the same cannot be sustained in law.