THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.7274 of 2010 Dated 31st March 2010 Between: K.T.Prasad Rao …Petitioner And: 1. The Commissioner, Commissioner of Hyderabad, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad and three others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri A.L.Raju Counsel for respondents: Government Pleader for Home The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner felt aggrieved by the inaction of the respondents in registering a criminal case against his own wife on the complaint made by him. The law is well settled that if the information given by any person as to the commission of an offence has not been registered as a crime, the aggrieved party is entitled to approach the Superintendent of Police under Section 154 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘the Code). If the said remedy proves to be ineffective, the aggrieved party has a right to file a private complaint under Section 190 of the Code, as held by the Supreme Court in Aleque Padamsee and others V. Union of India and others[1] and Sakiri Vasu V. State of U.P.[2] Having regard to the settled legal position, I am not inclined to entertain this writ petition. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to avail the remedies referred to above. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.9394 of 2010 is disposed of as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________________ JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY 31st March 2010 dr [1] (2007) 6 SCC 171 [2] AIR 2008 SC 907