In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc.-M No.2145 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:23.1.2009 Sukhdev Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab and others .....Respondents .... Present: Mr. Deepak Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioner. ...... S.S. Saron, J. This petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (`Cr.P.C.' - for short) has been filed for directing respondents No.2 and 3 to take adequate action on the complaints dated 18.12.2008 (Annexure-P.2) and dated 8.1.2009 (Annexure-P.3) given by the petitioner against the private respondents and register a case against them on account of the unnatural death of his wife. The primary grievance of the petitioner in this petition is that a FIR is liable to be registered against the accused (respondents No.4 and 5) on account of the suicide committed by the wife of the petitioner which is evident from the suicide note (Annexure-P.1). It is submitted that despite the petitioner approaching the Police authorities on numerous occasions, the Police is not registering a FIR and, therefore, directions are liable to be issued by this Court for registration of a FIR or, in any case, for looking into the complaints (Annexures-P.2 and P.3). After giving my thoughtful consideration to the matter, it may be noticed that the Police officials ought to register a FIR if the facts are Cr. Misc.-M No.2145 of 2009 [2] brought to their notice to show that a cognizance offence has been made out. However, this Court in exercise of its inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is normally not to issue such directions for registration of FIR. The Supreme Court in the case of Aleque Padamsee and others v. Union of India and others, (2007) 6 SCC 171 has held that the Police officials ought to register a FIR whenever the facts brought to their notice show that a cognizable offence has been made out. In case the Police officials fail to do so, the modalities to be adopted are set out in Section 190 read with Section 200 Cr.P.C. Therefore, in case the petitioners are aggrieved against the inaction of the Police officials in registering the FIR, the modalities contained in Section 190 read with Section 200 Cr.P.C. are to be adopted and observed. Therefore, it is open to any person aggrieved against the inaction of the Police to adopt the remedy in terms of the aforesaid provisions. Keeping in view the aforesaid facts and circumstances, the petitioner may, if so advised, avail the said remedies. However, directions cannot be issued for registration of the FIR. Consequently, the criminal miscellaneous petition is disposed of in the above terms. January 23, 2009. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*