IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. M. No.28536-M of 2010 Date of Decision:25.1.2010 Naveen Kumar .... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others .... Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. S.S. Sudan, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Amit Rana, D.A.G. Haryana. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. The only prayer made in the instant petition is for issuance of direction to respondents No.1 to 3 to register a criminal case against accused persons named in the head note of this petition. Hon'ble the Supreme Court in the case of Sakiri Vasu v. State of Uttar Pradesh and others, reported as 2008 (1) RCR (Criminal) 392 held as under:- “27. As we have already observed above, the Magistrate has very wide powers to direct registration of an FIR and to ensure a proper investigation and for this purpose he can monitor the investigation to ensure that the investigation is done properly (though he cannot investigate himself). The High Court should discourage the practice of filing a writ petition or petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C, simply because a person has a grievance that his FIR has not been registered by the police or after being registered, proper investigation has not been done by the police. For this grievance, the remedy lies under Section 36 and 154(3) before the concerned police officers, and if that is of no avail, under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. before the Magistrate or by filing a criminal complaint under Section 200 Cr.P.C. and not by Crl. M. No.28536-M of 2010 -2- filing a writ petition or a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. 28. It is true that alternative remedy is not an absolute bar to a writ petition, but it is equally well settled that if there is an alternative remedy the High Court should not ordinarily interfere.” Accordingly, the present petition stands disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to avail of alternative remedy in accordance with law, if so advised. 25.1.2010 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE