HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17525 of 2010 Date: July 21, 2010 Between: 1. Smt. Nune Nagarathnam & another. .. Petitioner And 1. The District Collector, Nellore District, Nellore & 8 others. .. Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17525 of 2010 ORDER: The grievance of the petitioners is that the police authorities are not taking any action upon their complaints with regard to the illegal acts of respondents 7 to 9. They seek a consequential direction to the police to take action forthwith upon their complaint dated 16.4.2010. 2. The inaction on the part of the police in registering an offence is ordinarily not amenable to judicial review by this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. In such cases, the proper course would be for the complainant to approach the concerned Superintendent of Police 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 U.P.[1] the power of the Magistrate under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. is very wide and the Magistrate can, in exercise of such power, not only direct registration of the offence, but also monitor the investigation process so as to obtain proper investigation. Without availing this efficacious remedy, the petitioners approached this Court directly by way of present writ petition. 4. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed at the threshold leaving it open to the petitioners to invoke the appropriate remedy available to them under the Code of Criminal Procedure. __________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: July 21, 2010. BSB [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409