THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 21785 OF 2013 O R D E R: In this Writ Petition, the action of the Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department, State of Karnataka, Bangalore and that of the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, as well as the action of the Deputy General Manager (Mobiles), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is sought to be impugned. The Principal Secretary to Government in its Home Department passed an order on 14.08.2007 directing the Deputy General Manager (Mobiles), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Bangalore, in terms of sub- section (2) of Section 5 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and Telegraph Rules, 1999 to tap one of the cell phones obviously used by the writ petitioner herein, who is the 1st accused in S.C.No. 330 of 2010 on the file of the I Additional Sessions Court at Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. The writ petitioner also challenges the order passed by the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City on 08.08.2007 to the identical effect as that of the Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department, State of Karnataka. Since these orders have been passed by those respective officers, acting on behalf of the State of Karnataka, learned counsel for the petitioner Sri D. Vijaya Chandra Reddy, seeks permission to withdraw the Writ Petition with liberty to agitate about the correctness of these proceedings before the High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore in view of lack of territorial jurisdiction in this Court. The permission sought for by the learned counsel on behalf of the petitioner is accorded. This Writ Petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to approach the High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore for calling in question the legality and validity of the orders passed by the Principal Secretary to Government in Home Department, State of Karnataka as well as the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City. No costs. Consequently, the miscellaneous applications, if any shall also stand dismissed. ----------------------------------------- NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J 24th July 2013 ksld THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.1040 of 2010 January 31, 2013 SP/KKM