IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 27271 of 2007 Between: 1 Mohamed Abdul Nayeem Zakee S/o. Late Mohamed Abdul Raheem R/o. H,.No.5-8-323/1 to 5 , Ground Floor, First Floor Shalimar Garden , Nampally, Hyderabad. 2 Mohamed Abdul Faaheem Zakee S/o. Late Mohamed Abdul Nayeem Zakee R/o. H,.No.5-8-323/1 to 5 , Ground Floor, First Floor Shalimar Garden , Nampally, Hyderabad. 3 Mohamed Abdul Nadeem Zakee S/o. Late Mohamed Abdul Nayeem Zakee R/o. H,.No.5-8-323/1 to 5 , Ground Floor, First Floor Shalimar Garden , Nampally, Hyderabad. 4 Mohamed Abdul Hakeem Zakee S/o. Late Mohamed Abdul Nayeem Zakee R/o. H,.No.5-8-323/1 to 5 , Ground Floor, First Floor Shalimar Garden , Nampally, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad. 2 Asst. Commissioner of Police, Abids, Hyderabad. 3 Inspector of Police, Abids, Hyderabad. 4 Dy. Commissioner of Police, CCS, Hyderabad. 5 Dy. Commissioner of Police, Task Force, West Zone, Secunderabad, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR. M.D.MOHAPATRA FOR MR.B.MADHAVA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR HOME The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to direct the respondents to act according to law in investigating into Crime No.241 of 2007 of Abids Police Station. Heard Sri M.D.Mohapatra, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home for the respondents and perused the record. Admittedly, the petitioners are accused in Crime No.241 of 2007, which was renumbered as Crime No.118 of 2007 on its transfer to Central Crime Station, Detective Department. The grievance of the petitioners is that in the name of investigation, they are being physically assaulted by using third degree methods and after filing of the present writ petition and the order passed by this Court on 20.12.2007, they stopped such harassment. It hardly needs any emphasis that while the police are entitled to investigate into the criminal cases in accordance with the procedure prescribed under the Code of Criminal Procedure, the law does not permit them to cause any physical harm or injury to the accused in course of investigation. Since the learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that after filing of the writ petition, the respondents stopped harassing the petitioners, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents to follow due process of law in carrying out investigation into the pending criminal case. If the petitioners are meted out any harassment in future, they are given liberty to approach this Court for appropriate relief. Subject to the above observations, the writ petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.35672 of 2007 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 23rd APRIL, 2008 kvni