JUDGMENT

Dr. Arijit Pasayat, J. — Leave granted.

2. Challenge in this appeal is to the order passed by a learned Single Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissing the revision petitions filed by the appellant and the State questioning the correctness of the order passed by the learned VIth Additional Sessions Judge, Gooty, (Fast Track Court), Gooty.

3. Background facts as projected by the appellant in a nutshell are as follows:

4. On 26.07.1997 at about 6 p.m., while Yeddula Siva Prasad Reddy (hereinafter referred to as the ‘deceased’) was coming on a motorbike, accused persons armed with deadly weapons, attacked and killed him. Appellant who was examined as P.W.1 lodged complaint with the police and investigation was taken up. On an application made by the respondents in Crl.R.C.No.1551 of 2004, the Superintendent of Police, Anantapur District got the matter investigated by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Guntakal and on the basis of his report, names of the present respondents were deleted from the array of accused. They were not included in the charge sheet filed on 07.11.1997. Thereafter, the case was committed to Sessions Court on 10.11.1997 and numbered as S.C.No.3