THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.31565 of 2011 ORDER: The action of the first respondent, in calling the employees of the petitioner-Company to the police station and asking them to settle their dispute with the second respondent, is questioned in this Writ Petition as being illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner-Company would assert that civil disputes exist between them and the second respondent in relation to execution of civil works; and, at the behest of the second respondent, the first respondent was calling their employees to the Atchutapuram Police Station, and asking them to settle such disputes with the second respondent. In his counter affidavit, the first respondent would deny having ever called either the employees of the petitioner- Company to the Atchutapuram Police Station or to have threatened them with dire consequences if they fail to settle their dispute with the second respondent; when the second respondent had approached the first respondent and had lodged a complaint against the petitioner-Company, the second respondent was informed that the dispute was civil in nature and his remedy was to approach the Civil Court; and the first respondent did not interfere with the civil disputes between the petitioner-Company and the second respondent. In the light of the specific denial in the counter affidavit filed by the first respondent of having called the employees of the petitioner-Company to the Atchutapuram Police Station, or to have threatened them with dire consequences if they failed to settle the matter with the second respondent, I see no reason to further delve into the disputed facts. Suffice to record that the first respondent asserts that he had neither called employees of the petitioner-Company to the police station, nor were they threatened with dire consequences, if they failed to settle their disputes with the second respondent. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, closed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:21.12.2011 usd