IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 14064 of 2009 Between: Chundru Suryanarayana Murthy, . .Petitioner And State of Andhra Pradesh, represented through its Superintendent of Police, East Godavari, Kakinada. .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.14064 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner filed this Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare the inaction of respondent No.2 in conducting investigation and taking further action pursuant to the registration of F.I.R. No.66 of 2007 as illegal, arbitrary and unjust and consequently direct the respondents to take further action in the above said case. 2. The grievance of the petitioner is that he filed a private complaint before the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Alamuru and on a reference made by the learned Magistrate, respondent No.2 registered a case in Crime No.66 of 2007 on 26.08.2007 for the offence punishable under Sections 448, 380, 506 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code and Section 156(3) of Code of Criminal Procedure. Though crime was registered in the month of August, 2007, as there was no progress in the said case, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home. 4. Apparently the crime was registered in the year 2007. When once a crime is registered, the respondent-police are duty bound to complete the investigation and either they have to file the charge sheet or they have to refer the case as false. Hence, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2, Station House Officer, Angara Police Station, to complete the investigation in Crime No.66 of 2007 and submit final report to the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Alamuru, at the earliest, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 5. With the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J October 09, 2009 KSH