HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.27467 of 2010 Date: November 23, 2010 Between: Gudepu Balaiah, S/o.Komuraiah, Aged about 52 years, Occ:Agriculture, R/o.Challur village, Karimnagar District … Petitioner And The Station House Officer, Veenavanka Police Station, Karimnagar District … Respondent Order: This writ petition is filed seeking mandamus declaring the action of the respondent-Station House Officer, Veenavanka Police Station, Karimnagar District, in not investigating into Cr.No.135/2010 on the file of P.S., Veenavanka, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner filed a private complaint under Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code on the file of the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Huzurabad against one Mr. Raju and Ms. Swathi alleging that the said persons styling themselves as agents of Vijaya Biotech Varmi Compost Urea Company collected an amount of Rs.70,000/- for supplying urea but they neither supplied urea nor repaid the said amount and thus cheated him. Based on the said complaint, the matter was referred under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C., to the respondent-Police, who in turn registered the same as Cr.No.135/2010 for the offences under Sections 420, 290, 326, 447 and 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. It is the grievance of the petitioner that in spite of a crime being registered basing on his complaint, respondent-Police is not investigating into the matter. The respondent-Station House Officer, Veenavanka Police Station, Karimnagar District, has filed counter- affidavit stating that after the matter was referred by the learned Magistrate, a case in Cr.No.135/2010 has been registered on the file of P.S., Veenavanka on 03-09-2010 and investigation was taken up; the investigating officer has examined as many as six witnesses including the petitioner/complainant and recorded their detailed statements. It is stated that investigation into the said crime will be completed as expeditiously as possible and appropriate report will be filed under Section 173 Cr.P.C. It is to be noted that the petitioner filed a private complaint under Section 200 Cr.P.C., on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Huzurabad against one Mr. Raju and Ms. Swathi alleging that the said persons styling themselves as agents of Vijaya Biotech Varmi Compost Urea Company collected an amount of Rs.70,000/- for supplying urea but they neither supplied the urea nor repaid the said amount and thus cheated him. Thereafter, the matter was referred to the respondent-Police, who registered the same as Cr.No.135/2010 on the file of P.S., Veenavanka on 03-09-2010 and took up investigation. As much as the crime has been registered only on 03-09- 2010, it cannot be said that there is any undue delay in investigating the matter. In any event, as it is stated in the counter-affidavit filed by the respondent-Police that six witnesses including the petitioner/complainant have been examined and their detailed statements have been recorded and investigation into the said crime will be completed as expeditiously as possible, I dispose of the writ petition recording the aforesaid averment of the respondent-Police in the counter-affidavit. No order as to costs. ___________________ (R. SUBHASH REDDY, J) November 23, 2010 MRR