THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.31924 of 2011 ORDER: This Writ Petition is ﬁled to declare the action of respondent No.1, in not causing enquiry into the representations dated 12.04.2011 and 10.11.2011, as being illegal and arbitrary. A consequential direction is sought to respondent No.1 to cause enquiry into the representations dated 12.04.2011 and 10.11.2011, and take action against respondent No.3. The petitioner, being an accused in Crime No.49 of 2011 for the oﬀences punishable under Sections 498- A, 384, 323, 506 read with 34 IPC of Women Police Station, Nellore, was produced before the V Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nellore; the Learned Magistrate, in his order dated 24.09.2011, remanded the petitioner along with other accused to judicial custody. Alleging that the third respondent (the father- in-law of the petitioner) was foisting false cases against him, the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court. It is evident that the Learned Magistrate is seized of the matter. As held by the Supreme Court, in Sakiri Vasu v. State of Uttar Pradesh and others[1], the petitioner has an eﬀective remedy under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.), whereunder the Magistrate concerned has not only the power to order registration of the oﬀence, but also to direct the oﬃcer in-charge of the concerned police station to hold proper investigation as also to monitor the same. In view of the alternative remedy available to the petitioner, I consider it wholly inappropriate to exercise jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Leaving it open to the petitioner to approach the Magistrate under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. for the relief sought for herein, the Writ Petition is dismissed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:03.12.2011 usd [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409