IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.RAMKUMAR WEDNESDAY, THE 21ST JULY 2010 / 30TH ASHADHA 1932 WP(C).No. 16975 of 2010(Q) ---------------------------------------------- CRIME NOS.399 AND 400/2010 OF KIZHAKKEKALLADA POLICE STATION PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ DASSAPPAN @ DASAN AGED 38 YEARS, S/O.DAS,KARUNAKARA VILASAM, MANDROTHURUTHU VILLAGE KOLLAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.C.RAJENDRAN RESPONDENT(S): ----------------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA,REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY,HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIATE, THIRUVANTHAPURAM. 2. THE DISRTICT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE KOLLAM. 3. THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, KOLLAM. 4. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, KIZHAKKEKALLADA POLICE STATION, KOLLAM. 5. GOOPAKUMAR G., THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE,EAST KALLADA POLICE STATION,KOLLAM. GOVERNMENT PLEADER FOR R4 SRI.C.S.HRITHWICK THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 21/07/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: V. RAMKUMAR, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = W.P.(c).No.16975 of 2010 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 21 st day of July, 2010 JUDGMENT In this writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner who is the accused in Crime No.400/2010 of Kizhakkekallada Police Station registered for offences punishable under Sections 395,332,353,308 and 294(b) and 3(1) of the Prevention of Destruction of Public Properties Act, 1984, seeks a direction to entrust the investigation of the said case with a superior officer not below the rank of a Dy.S.P. 2. 4th respondent, Sub Inspector of Police, East Kallada Police Station has filed a statement after traversing the averments in the writ petition. I am not going into the allegations and counter allegations in the light of the admission in the said statement to the effect that on 27.5.2010 the Superintendent of Police, Kollam has ordered W.P.(c).No.16975 of 2010 2 investigation of the above crime namely Crime No.400/2010 as well as another crime namely Crime No.399/2010 to the Dy.S.P, DCRB, Kollam. In the light of the fact that the investigation of the above two crimes has been entrusted with an Officer of the rank of a Dy.S.P., the petitioner also has no subsisting grievance in the matter . This writ petition is accordingly closed, recording the above statement. Dated this the 21st day of July, 2010. V. RAMKUMAR, JUDGE sj