JUDGMENT :

Mr. Vinod S. Bhardwaj, J (Oral): Prayer in the present petition is for issuance of directions to the respondents to remove the name of the petitioner as a Bad Character from Code-B after closing the history sheet and also from the surveillance register maintained by the police.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner is a respectable person in the society and has remained Vice President of Municipal Committee, Narnaul and has been elected thrice as a counsellor by the Committee. He contends that various false FIRs had been registered against the petitioner on account of political rivalry and that he already stands acquitted in the said FIRs that were registered against him. The police has however still incorporated the name of the petitioner in the Surveillance register notwithstanding the acquittal/discharge of the petitioner in the said FIRs. He contends that the same has an impairment on the reputation and social acceptance of the petitioner. He thus, prays that his name be deleted from the surveillance register.

3. A reply by way of an affidavit of Vinod Kumar HPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Narnaul, District Mahendergarh (Haryana) on be