IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.16481 of 2007 Between: M. Marimuthu … Petitioner And The Secretary, Home Department, Govt., of A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad & others. … Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: None Counsel for respondents 1-4: AGP for Home The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.16481 of 2007 ORDER: In this writ petition, the grievance of the petitioner is that the police have not considered his representation dated 20.03.2006 for re- investigation into the death of his son Manikandan. The petitioner sought for a consequential direction to the respondents to re- investigate through another police officer. At the hearing, there is no representation for the petitioner. A detailed counter affidavit has been filed by respondent No.4, wherein it is inter alia stated as under: “I respectfully submit that during the course of investigation the I.O examined seven witnesses and recorded their detailed statements including that of the petitioner herein. Autopsy was conducted over the dead body of the deceased. The doctors who treated the deceased opined that the cause of death is “Asphysxia due to hanging”. Investigation revealed that the deceased (son of the petitioner herein) is a poor person and was eking his livelihood by doing paddy gross machine helper and getting Rs.2,000/- salary and the deceased is the elder member of his family and the family depends on him and that they are having heavy debts and no source to clear the said debts. The investigation further disclosed that keeping in mind the poverty of his family and heavy debts, the deceased has mentally suffered and about 3 days back the deceased came to Rangapuram of Mogullapally Mandal with paddy cutting machine and that on 02.12.2005 the complainant engaged the said machine for cutting his paddy situated at Laxmipuram and they were cutting the paddy with the said machine. Keeping the heavy debts and no source to clear the taken loans the deceased vexed with life has committed suicide by hanging to tree with a rope. The complainant witnessed the same and called the witnesses and they rushed to the scene, lifted the hanging person and found him dead. Investigation was completed. Permission was obtained from the Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Parkal referring the complaint of the complainant as “Suicidal death of the deceased by hanging due to financial problems”. Final report was also filed before the Hon’ble Court of Executive Magistrate at Parkal on 29.01.2006. I respectfully submit that no one suspected with regard to the death of the deceased. There is no evidence collected during the course of investigation to suspect any foul play. The petitioner was also examined and detailed statement was also recorded by the investigating officer. After completion of the investigation and after filing the final report into the Court of Executive Magistrate at Parkal, the petitioner has submitted a representation dated 20.03.2006 with new facts which are far from truth. I submit that the investigation was conducted on proper lines.” In view of the above stand taken by the police, I do not find any merit in the writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. However, the petitioner is entitled to pursue his remedy before the jurisdictional Magistrate by filing objections to the final report. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, WPMP.No.20973 of 2007 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is also dismissed. __________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 25.06.2010. ES