IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 22036 of 2009 Between: 1 M/s.Presitage Avenues Ltd.,rep.by its managing Director Sri.M.Venkateswar Rao,S/o.Sri Late M.Venakt Ratnam having its Regd.Office at 4th floor, Tirumala Estates 3-6-262, Himayathnagar,Hyderabad-500029 2 M/s.Venkateshwar Rao S/o.Sri Late M.Venkat Ratnam M/s.Prestige Avenues Ltd., R/o.Sri Balaji Indraprasth 1-1-508/1, Gandhinagar,Himayathnagar, Hyderabad Md.Thurab Ali, S/o.Anwar Ali, aged 39 years Occ:Agriculutre ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Commissioner of Police,Hyderabad 2 The State of Andhra PRadesh, rep.by Principal Secretary (Home Department) Secretariat, Hyderabad .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue an appropriate writ as against the respondents herein more particularly a writ of mandamus declaring the inaction of the 1st respondent in not taking any action on the representation made by the 2nd petitioner dated 9.10.2009 asillegal, bad arbitrary, and opposed to established principles of law and consequently direct the respondents herein to trasnfer all the cases which are registered as against the petitioners in the city or districts referred by any court or directly filed by the complainants pertaining to "ocean prestige " project to CCS (Central Crime Station) Hyderabad in the interest of justice Counsel for the Petitioner:MS.K.PALLAVI Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA Writ Petition No.22036 OF 2009 ORDER: 1 The first petitioner who is involved in real estate business purchased land at Rachakonda village, Nalgonda District from the Government and after obtaining necessary permissions for converting the same from agricultural purpose to non agricultural purpose, developed the land and started selling the said land in plots in the name and style “Ocean Prestige”. According to the petitioners some of the purchasers who are not happy with the plots purchased by them filed private complaints against the second petitioner stating that the petitioners cheated the purchasers and in that connection some cases have been registered against the petitioners before different police stations. According to them some complaints have been filed before the Afzalgunj police, and some cases were filed before the Narainguda Police etc., and as it is causing any amount of inconvenience to approach all the police stations, the second petitioner gave a representation to the Commissioner of Police on 09.10.2009 requesting the Commissioner to transfer all the cases pending against the petitioners to Central Crime Station. However, as no action has been initiated, the petitioners approached this Court and filed the present Writ Petition. 2 Heard both sides. 3 Apparently, several crimes have been registered against the petitioners for their involvement of selling plots without having any right whatsoever. As rightly contended by the learned counsel for the petitioners if all the cases are before one police station, it would be convenient for the police for the purpose of investigating into, as well as for the petitioners to explain. As the petitioners have already approached the Commissioner of Police and gave a representation on 09.10.2009, requesting him to transfer all the cases to one police station in connection with their project “Ocean Prestige”, the Commissioner is hereby directed to consider the said representation and transfer all the crimes filed /to be filed against the petitioners to one police station i.e. Central Crime Station, so that, the investigation into the said crimes can be done by one police station. 4 With the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. No order as to costs. ------------------------------ 20.10.2009 C.C.today B/o kvsn