1 pps IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Writ Petition No. 1022 of 2009 . Smt.Rukhmini Vithal Medhekar & Ors. .. Petitioners v/s. The State of Maharashtra & Others ..Respondents Mr.Nimish Desai i/b. Mr.G.S.Hiranandani for the Petitioners. Smt.V.R.Bhosale, APP for the State CORAM : B.H. MARLAPALLE & R.Y.GANOO, JJ. DATED : 17th December, 2009 P.C. : 1. We have heard Mr.Desai, learned Counsel for the petitioners. The petitioners pray for quashing of case Nos.760 to 764 of 2008 and the order dated 11.4.2008 passed by the learned Spl. Metropolitan Magistrate, Andheri. The petitioners further pray for directions to refund the fine amount and to direct the respondent nos.2, 3 and 4 each to pay the sum of Rs.5 lakhs to the petitioners. 2. So far as the orders passed by the Special Metropolitan Magistrate, Andheri are concerned, the petitioners’ challenge is somewhere else and it 2 cannot be entertained in a writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution. If in the criminal case , a chargehseet has been filed against the petitioners, their remedy is to apply for discharge before the court concerned. 3. Our attention was invited by Mr. Desai to the complaint addressed by one of the petitioners, to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone X, on 17.4.2008 alleging harrassment and ill-treatment to the mother of the petitioners. It is further alleged that she was detained in the police station for no reasons. The said complaint does not give the date on which this incident has happened. Mr.Desai pointed out to the affidavit filed by Shri Keshav Kasar and stated that the affiant has not denied such an incident. The affidavit states that on 10.4.2008 the petitioner No.1 i.e. the mother of the petitioner nos.2 and 3 had herself gone to the police station along with her sister namely Smt. Laxmi @ Shakuntala Khopkar, in connection with the complaint filed by the Secretary of the respondent no.5 society. 4. Be that as it may. If any police officer or any office bearer of the society has, in the opinion of the petitioners, committed an offence the petitioners may have the remedy to approach the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate and file a private complaint . 5. For the reliefs prayed for, this petition does not deserve to be entertained. Hence Petition is dismissed. [R.Y.GANOO, J.] [B.H. MARLAPALLE, J.]