IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 2229 of 2002 Between: 1 Miryala Suryanarayana, S/o. Sri Venkata Rao, R/o. Jalluru, Pithapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. 2 K.Varalakshmi, W/o. Kukkteswara Rao, R/o. Jalluru, Pithapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Superintedent of Police, Kakinada, East Godavari District. 2 The Station House Officer, Pithapuram, East Godavari District. 3 The District Collector, Kakinada, East Godavari District. 4 P.Suryanarayana, S/o. Sathaiah, Jalluru Gram Panchayat, Pithapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a writ, order or orders direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the 1st and 2nd respondents in not registering the FIR against the 4th respondent in pusuance of the instfructions issued by the 3rd respondent in his Roc.No.4386/2001-A2, dt. 29.10.2001 as illegal, arbitrary and consequently direct the 1st respondent and 2nd respondents to register the FIR and taken action as per law against the 4th respondent and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.V.V.N.NARAYANA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following : ORDER: The only grievance of the petitioner is that the 2nd respondent-Station House Officer, Pithapuram is not registering the crime pursuant to the instructions issued by the District Collector. A counter has been filed by the second respondent stating that some unsigned letter has been received from the office of the District Collector and therefore, the police cannot act on the said letter. However, subsequently, on a complaint made by the Panchayat Extension Officer, Pithapuram against the 4th respondent, a case in Crime No.21 of 2002 for the offence under Section 453 IPC has been registered. In view of the counter filed by the second respondent, it cannot be said that no crime has been registered. As the crime has already been registered, no orders are required to be passed in the matter. Hence, the writ petition is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V.ESWARAIAH, J. Date:09.04.2008 Ccm To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{ANURADHA}