THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.28952 of 2009 DATED: 03.08.2010 Between:- Pilla Papa Rao and another .. Petitioners and The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary (Home), Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents ORDER: It is the grievance of the petitioners that the respondents 3 and 4, who are police officials, are interfering with the civil disputes between them and respondents 5 to 8 as regards land admeasuring Ac.02.01 cents in Sy.No.211/15 situated at Kapuluppada Village, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, and calling them to police station, without there being any case registered against them, and also threatening to implicate them in false cases, if they do not handover the possession of the said land to respondents 5 to 8. Therefore, they filed the present writ petition seeking appropriate directions to the respondent police. Respondent No.3- Sub Inspector of Police, Bheemunipatnam Police Station, filed a detailed counter-affidavit, denying the allegations made by the petitioners and it is stated that respondents 5 to 8 filed a private complaint before the IV Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, Visakhapatnam, against the petitioners herein and it was referred to Bheemunipatnam Police Station for investigation and report. Pursuant thereto, a case in Crime No.344 of 2008 was registered against the petitioners, for the offences punishable under Sections 191, 420, 468, 471 and 109 read with Section 34 of I.P.C. and investigation was conducted. Since the matter is civil in nature and no evidence was adduced against the petitioners, the matter was referred as civil in nature and accordingly final report was also field before the concerned Criminal Court, on 23.12.2008. Aggrieved thereby, the defacto complainants filed a protest petition and pending enquiry on the said petition, they have also approached the Commissioner of Police, Visakhapatnam, with a detailed representation and thereupon the matter was entrusted to the Task Force Police for enquiry. As the enquiry conducted by the Task Force Police revealed a prima facie case, the matter was again referred to the 3rd respondent, for investigation, and thereupon the 3rd respondent further enquired into the matter. As the evidence collected by the 3rd respondent also revealed prima facie case against the petitioners for the offences alleged, he filed a memo before the concerned Criminal Court on 24.12.2009, obtained permission for reopening the case against the petitioners and proceeded with further investigation. The 2nd petitioner herein, who is shown as accused No.1 in the said case, was apprehended on 16.01.2010 and remanded to judicial custody, and the investigation is still in progress. It is, thus, categorically stated that the crime registered against the petitioners i.e. Crime No.344 of 2008 is still pending and investigation is going on, and except registering the said case and conducting investigation, the respondent police never interfered with the civil disputes between the parties and only with a view to prevent the police from taking further action, the petitioners filed the present writ petition. In view of the aforesaid categorical stand taken by respondent police, no further orders need be passed in the present writ petition. Accordingly, the writ petition is closed, recording the stand taken by the respondent police referred above. No order as to costs. __________________ JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA 03rd August, 2010 IBL