HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.20438 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner’s grievance is that the Station House Officer, Market Police Station, Secunderabad, is not effecting arrest pursuant to FIR No.116 of 2010. Inaction on the part of the police authorities in registering a crime or investigating the same is not amenable ordinarily to judicial review by this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution. As pointed out by the Supreme Court in Sakiri Vasu v. State of Uttar Pradesh and others[1], the proper course in such cases is for the complainant to approach the Superintendent of Police concerned under Section 154(3) Cr.P.C., or the Magistrate concerned under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. The Magistrate concerned is empowered not only to direct the registration of the offence but also monitor the process, so as to obtain a proper investigation. Without availing these efficacious alternative remedies, the petitioner approached this Court directly. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the appropriate remedy under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. No costs. SANJAY KUMAR, J. Date:18.08.2010 usd [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409