HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.14940 of 2011 Date: June 07, 2011 Between: Sri Dandu Maisamma Mathyakara Seva Samithi, Rep. by its President Smt. Kothi Madhavi … Petitioner And 1. The Superintendent of Police, Nalgonda District at Nalgonda and 2 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.14940 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner Mathyakara Seva Samithi is aggrieved by the inaction on the part of the respondents upon their representation dated 01.3.2011 and seeks a direction to them to protect the business of its members. 2. The members of the petitioner society, who are 20 to 30 in number, are stated to be eking out their livelihood by doing retail fish business in Suryapet market. It is their case that some local business people are creating hurdles to their business activities with the support of anti-social elements. In spite of their representation dated 01.3.2011, the respondent authorities did not take any action. Hence, this writ petition. 3. As pointed out by the Supreme Court in Sakiri Vasu v. State of U.P[1], ordinarily this Court in exercise of jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution would not entertain complaints into the lapses on the part of police authorities in registering and conducting investigation in an alleged offence. The proper course in such cases is for the complainant to approach the Superintendent of Police under Section 154(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. If his grievance still persists he may then invoke the jurisdiction of the Magistrate concerned under Section 156 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Magistrate is empowered not only to direct registration of the FIR but also to monitor the investigative process and ensure that proper investigation is made. Without availing these efficacious alternative remedies, the petitioner Samithi approached this Court directly by way of the present writ petition. 4. The writ petition is therefore dismissed at the threshold leaving it open to the petitioner Samithi to avail the remedies provided under the Code of Criminal Procedure. No costs. ___________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: June 07, 2010. BSB [1] (2008) 2 SCC 409