HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.22075 of 2010 Date: September 03, 2010 Between: Ragam Bakkaiah … Petitioners And 1. The Station House Officer, Lingala Ghanapur, Warangal District and 3 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.22075 of 2010 ORDER: The grievance of the petitioner is that the Station House Officer, Lingala Ghanapur P.S, is not taking action upon his complaint dated 12.8.2010. He seeks a consequential direction to him to investigate the crime by registering a case on the basis of the said complaint. 2. Inaction on the part of the police in registering an offence or in investigating the same is not ordinarily amenable to judicial review under Article 226 of the Constitution in the first instance. The proper remedy in such cases is for the complainant to approach the Superintendent of Police concerned 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 Uttar Pradesh[1] the power of the Magistrate under the said provision is very wide. The Magistrate can, in exercise of such power, not only direct registration of the offence, but also monitor the investigation so as to obtain proper investigation. Without availing this efficacious remedy, the petitioner approached this Court directly. No exceptional circumstances are made out warranting interference in this writ petition. 4. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the appropriate remedy under the Code of Criminal Procedure. No costs. ___________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: September 03, 2010. BSB [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409