1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 567 OF 2011 Avinash Ganpatrao Shegaonkar .vs. The State of Maharashtra & others Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Mr. N.C. Dhoble, Advocate for petitioner, Mr. R.S. Nayak, Additional Public Prosecutor for respondents. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS & PRASANNA B. VARALE, JJ. DATED : NOVEMBER 15, 2011. This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by which the petitioner seeks issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to register an offence on the basis of the complaint of the petitioner dated 4.8.2010. 2] A reference at this juncture may usefully be made to judgments of Supreme Court in Aleque Padamsee and others .vs. Union of India and others, reported in (2007) 6 SCC 171 & Sakiri Vasu .vs. State of U.P. & others reported in AIR 2008 SC 907 wherein the Supreme Court 2 has held that a relief of directing the police to register an offence is not available and the aggrieved person has a remedy of either filing a private complaint or an application under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. In the light of the said judgments, we are not inclined to interfere and accordingly relegate the petitioner to the alternate remedies which are available to the petitioner in law. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed. Judge Judge J.