HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7116 of 2009 O R D E R: The petitioner/Accused is accused of offence punishable under Section 506 IPC in CC No.353 of 2009 on the file of Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Ananthapur. 2. The only ground urged by the petitioner’s counsel in this case is that the offence punishable under Section 506 IPC is a non-cognizable offence and that therefore, the Sub Inspector of Police, B.K.Samudram police station is incompetent to register the case and to take up investigation and ultimately to file charge sheet in this case before the Magistrate. Reliance is placed on Judvvadi Raghu Vs. State through SHO P.S. Vemulawada, Karimnagar District[1] of this Court in this regard. Without the police seeking permission under Section 155 Cr.P.C. the police are incompetent to proceed with investigation of a non-cognizable case under Section 506 IPC. Hence the proceedings launched by the State represented by the Sub Inspector of Police against the petitioner for the offence punishable under Section 506 IPC is illegal and incompetent. 3. Hence, the criminal petition is allowed quashing the proceedings in CC No. 353 of 2009 on the file of Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Ananthapur, against the petitioner/Accused. ___________________________________________ JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU Dt. 01.04.2011 Mjl/* [1] 2006(3) ALT (Crl.) 167 (A.P.)