HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.18172 of 2010 Date: July 28, 2010 Between: Rallapalli Lahari. … Petitioner And 1. The State of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Department of Home, Secretariat, Hyderabad and 8 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.18172 of 2010 ORDER: The grievance of the petitioner is with regard to the inertia of the Police Authorities in taking action upon her complaint with regard to the illegalities and atrocities being perpetrated by respondents 5 to 9. 2. However heartrending the facts of the case may be, this court is conscious of the ratio laid down by the Supreme Court in Sakiri Vasu v. State of Uttar Pradesh[1] that unless exceptional circumstances are made out, a writ petition or an application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is not the remedy in the first instance if there is inaction on the part of the police in registering a crime or investigating the same. 3. As pointed out by the Supreme Court the proper course in such cases is for the complainant either 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 is empowered by the said provision with very wide powers so as to not only direct registration of an offence, if the situation so warrants, but also to monitor the process so as to obtain a proper investigation. Without availing these efficacious remedies, the petitioner approached this Court directly. 4. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the appropriate remedy under the Code of Criminal Procedure. No order as to costs. ___________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: July 28, 2010. BSB [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409