THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO :3435 of 2006 DATED: 23-02-2006 Between: Amara Ramakoteswara Rao and others .. Petitioners And The Dy.Commissioner of Police, Detective Department and others .. Respondents THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO :3435 of 2006 ORAL ORDER Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Home. The petitioners are accused in Crime No.691 of 2004, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad, registered on 17.09.2004, on the basis of a complaint by the respondents 2 and 3 for the offences under Sections 467, 420, 409 and 406 of the Indian Penal Code. The writ petition is filed seeking quashing of the registration and investigation into Crime No.691 of 2004. The established tests for exercise of jurisdiction in this area is laid down in a series of decisions including STATE OF HARYANA v BHAJANLAL. The complaint of the respondents 2 and 3 taken as true, does not justify the interdiction of the investigation at this stage of the matter nor is the conduct of the respondent No.1 in registering the F.I.R seen to be illegal or mala fide for that matter. Sri K.Pratap Reddy, learned senior counsel for petitioners alternatively submits that as the petitioners are facing the trauma of endless investigation since September, 2004, the respondent No. 1 be directed to expedite the process of investigation and file a final report within a stipulated time frame. There could be no normative objection to the grant of this relief. Accordingly, while rejecting the substantive relief sought by the petitioners, respondent No.1 is directed to expeditiously conclude the process of investigation and file a final report to the appropriate Court of Competent jurisdiction, preferably within a period of three months from today. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ______________________ GODA RAGHURAM,J DATED:23-02-2006 kvrm