IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA,AT DHARWAD

DATED THIS THE 3^RD DAY OF DECEMBER, 2025

BEFORE

THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA

WRIT PETITION NO. 109191 OF 2025 (GM-POLICE)

BETWEEN:

SUSHIL @ SUSHILKUMAR S/O. MOHAN RAMADURGA,

AGE. 28 YEARS, OCC. STUDENT, R/O. SAIDAPUR ONI, DHARWAD, TQ. DIST. DHARWAD – 580 008.

…PETITIONER

(BY SRI. I. Y. PATIL, ADVOCATE)

AND:

1. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA,

HOME DEPARTMENT,

THROUGH PRINCIPAL SECRETARY,

VIDHANA SOUDHA, BENGALURU – 560 001.

2. THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,

LAW AND ORDER,

SPL. SUB DIVISIONAL MAGISTRATE,

HUBBALLI, DHARWAD.

3. THE POLICE INSPECTOR,

Digitally signed by SUB URBAN POLICE STATION,

VISHAL NINGAPPA

DHARWAD 580 001.

PATTIHAL

Location: High …RESPONDENTS

Court of Karnataka,

Dharwad Bench, (BY SRI. T. HANUMAREDDY, AGA)

Dharwad

THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227

OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO THE RESPONDENT NO.3 TO CONSIDER THE REPRESENTATION DATED 19.11.2025 VIDE ANNEXURE-J OR. AND ISSUE DIRECTION TO THE RESPONDENT NO.3 TO REMOVE NAME OF PETITIONER FROM ROWDY SHEET LIST WHICH IS MAINTAINED BY

THE RESPONDENT NO.3 AND ETC.,

THIS WRIT PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING

THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER:

ORAL ORDER

(PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA)

1. The petitioner is before this Court seeking the following prayer:

A. Issue a writ of mandamus to the respondent no.3 to consider the representation dated

19.11.2025 vide Annexure-J or.

B. Issue direction to the respondent no.3 to remove name of petitioner from “Rowdy sheet” list which is maintained by the respondent No.3.

2. The petitioner is before the Court on the score that his name has been drawn into the list of rowdies in the register maintained before the respondent No.3 Police Station. Learned counsel for the petitioner, taking this Court through the documents appended to the petition would seek to submit that the only case pending against the petitioner in which the Police have filed a ‘B’ report and the said ‘B’ report has become final.

3. In that light, the petitioner submitted a representation for deletion of his name from the list of rowdies in the registry maintained by the respondent No.3. In the light of it not being considered the petitioner is before the Court.

4. The learned AGA submits that in accordance with law orders would be passed, if reasonable time is granted.

5. In view of the said submission, I deem it appropriate to dispose the petition with a direction to the respondent No.2 to consider the representation seeking deletion bearing in mind the law as declared by the Coordinate Bench of this Court in the case of B.S.PRAKASH VS. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS in W.P.No.4504/2021 disposed on 22.04.2022 The guidelines laid down read as follows:

“GUIDELINES FOR ROWDY/HISTORY SHEETING:

i. Before entering the name of an individual to the Register of Rowdies, the jurisdictional police shall collect and collate the material information concerning him and frame the proposal for registration on that basis.

ii. A brief proposal notice shall be sent to the individual concerned in a sealed cover with an option to submit his representation within two weeks as to why his name should not be registered as a rowdy. However, there is no need to afford a personal hearing. In exceptional cases notice may be dispensed with for reasons to be recorded in the Register of Rowdies.

iii. In terms of Clause (5), Order 1059 of the Manual, the Superintendent of Police or the Sub – Divisional Police Officer shall not accord approval for entering the name of individual concerned to the Register of Rowdies without calling for records and objectively considering the same. He shall briefly record his reasons for according the approval and mark a copy thereof to the individual forthwith, with a mention that he may petition the Police Complaints Authority, against the same.

iv. The jurisdictional Police shall compulsorily once in two years, undertake a periodic review of entries in the Register of Rowdie