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Maya Devi vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others on 16 December, 2019

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD

?Court No. – 43

Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. – 25618 of 2019

Petitioner :- Maya Devi

Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Jamil Ahamad Azmi

Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.

Hon’ble Pankaj Naqvi,J.

Hon’ble Samit Gopal,J.

Heard Sri Jamil Ahamad Azmi, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri S.R. Pandey learned AGA.

This writ petition has been filed for seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent concerned to conduct fair investigation in pursuance of FIR dated 27.9.2019 registered as Case Crime No. 0217 of 2019 under Sections 498A, Section364 IPC and 3/4 SectionDowry Prohibition Act, P.S. Jiyanpur, District Azamgarh.

It is submitted that petitioner is an informant in the above case and despite approaching the authority concerned for fair investigation, no action whatsoever has been taken, an appropriate direction be issued for fair and expeditious investigation.

It is well settled in view of the decision of the Apex Court in Sakiri Vasu v. State of U.P., (2008) 2 SCC 409 as reiterated in Sudhir Bhaskarrao Tambe v. Hemant, Yashwant Dhage and others, (2016) 6 SCC 277 that in the event of unsatisfactory investigation, remedy of the aggrieved person is not to approach the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India but to approach the Magistrate concerned under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Tambe (supra) are quoted hereunder:

“2. This Court has held in SectionSakiri Vasu v. State of U.P., that if a person has a grievance that his FIR has not been registered by the police, or having been registered, proper investigation is not being done, then the remedy of the aggrieved person is not to go to the High Court under SectionArticle 226 of the Constitution of India, but to approach the Magistrate concerned under Section 156(3) CrPC. If such an application under Section 156(3) CrPC is made and the Magistrate is, prima facie, satisfied, he can direct the FIR to be registered, or if it has already been registered, he can direct proper investigation to be done which includes in his discretion, if he deems it necessary, recommending change of the investigating officer, so that a proper investigation is done in the matter. We have said this in Sakiri Vasu case because what we have found in this country that the High Courts have been flooded with writ petitions praying for registration of the first information report or praying for a proper investigation.

3. We are of the opinion that if the High Courts entertain such writ petitions, then they will be flooded with such writ petitions and will not able to do any other work except dealing with such writ petitions. Hence, we have held that the complainant must avail of his alternate remedy to approach the Magistrate concerned under Section 156(3) CrPC and if he does so, the Magistrate will ensure, if prima facie he is satisfied, registration of the first information report and also ensure a proper investigation in the matter, and he can also monitor the investigation.”

Thus, in view of the above, remedy, if any, for the petitioner is to approach the competent Magistrate in respect of his grievance.

With the aforesaid observations, this writ petition is disposed off.

Order Date :- 16.12.2019

AKK

 

 

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