HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17429 of 2010 Date: July 21, 2010 Between: Palapati Venkateswarlu @ Venkanna .. Petitioner And 1. The Superintendent of Police, Eluru, West Godavari District & 4 others. .. Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17429 of 2010 ORDER: The grievance of the petitioner is that the police authorities are not investigating Crime No.169 of 2009 of Pedavegi Police Station, Pedavegi Mandal, West Godavari District He seeks a consequential direction to the police to investigate the aforesaid crime and submit a report to the concerned Court. 2. The inaction on the part of the police in investigating a crime is ordinarily not amenable to judicial review by this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. In such cases, the proper course would be for the complainant to approach the concerned Superintendent of Police under Section 154 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure or the Magistrate concerned under Section 156 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 3. As pointed out by the Supreme Court in Sakiri Vasu v. State of U.P.[1] the power of the Magistrate under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. is very wide and the Magistrate can, in exercise of such power, not only direct registration of the offence, but also monitor the investigation process so as to obtain proper investigation. Without availing this efficacious remedy, the petitioner approached this Court directly by way of present writ petition. 4. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed at the threshold leaving it open to the petitioner to invoke the appropriate remedy available to him under the Code of Criminal Procedure. No costs. __________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: July 21, 2010. BSB Note: Issue CC in three days. //B.O.// BSB [1] (2008) 2 SCC 209