IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.33248 of 2010 BETWEEN R. Arun Kumar. ... PETITIONER AND The Superintendent of Police, Nizamabad and others. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. KRISHNA SUMANTH Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following order: ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking direction by way of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents – police in not registering a crime on the complaint dated 29.08.2007 as being illegal and arbitrary. 2. Petitioner claims that he is the owner and purchaser of the land admeasuring Ac.2.00 cents in Sy.No.1255 of Kotgir village and mandal, Nizamabad District. It is the grievance of the petitioner that the unofficial respondents are neighbours to the petitioner and are interfering with his possession and the petitioner is having reasonable apprehension of threat to his life and liberty. His further grievance is that in spite of his complaint dated 29.08.2007, the respondent – police have not taken any action. 3. Based on the written instructions issued by the Station House Officer, Kotgir Police Station on 11.01.2011, it is submitted by the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents that there is no cognizable offence as per the complaint dated 05.10.2010, as such no action is taken. It is further submitted that there is also remedy available to the petitioner to file a private complaint under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the unofficial respondents, if any offence is committed. 4. A perusal of the complaint filed by the petitioner goes to show that there is no allegation of commission of any cognizable offence. It appears from the complaint dated 05.10.2010 also that the dispute is with regard to agricultural land and in that view of the matter, the dispute being civil in nature, it cannot be said that there is inaction on the part of the respondents in registering a case against the unofficial respondents. Keeping it open to the petitioner to avail civil remedy in the common Court of law, this writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J January 19, 2011 DSK