Ujagar Singh, J.

1. This petition seeks quashing of the history-sheet of the petitioner opened by the respondents and for issuance of a direction to destroy the history-sheet, finger-prints, foot-prints and photographs illegally taken and kept on the record of Police Station, Samrala.

2. The grounds alleged in the petition are that the petitioner Parminder Singh is a young man of about 39 years and has studied up to Pre-University; that he is a wine contractor and also owns huge rural and urban property and is a respectable citizen; that the opponents of the petitioner got false cases registered against him at Police Station, Samrala and other police stations but he was acquitted in all the cases and was never convicted by any court for any criminal charge. It is alleged that the respondents have illegally entered the name of the petitioner in the history-sheet vide Register No. 10 of Police Station Samrala apart from having taken his finger-prints, foot-prints and photographs.

3. Rule 23.4(3) of the Punjab Police Rules, 1934 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules) reads as under :-

"23.4 Surveillance Register No. X. (1) x x x

(2) x x x

(3) In part II of such registe