This application is laid under Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The petitioners want a preliminary enquiry against the respondents and sanction of prosecution of them for certain offences. It is responded by a stiff resistence by the respondents. The respondents 1 to 4 are the police officers attached to Police Task Force, Hyderabad. Respondents 5 & 6 are the mediators they occupy the cadres from the lowest to the Assistant Commissioner of Police in the hierarchy of the department. Allegedly, on receiving reliable information on 10-9-94 at 8 p.m. that the petitioners and others were using Door No. 15-7-586, Begumbazar, Hyderabad as a common gaming house where people gather to play three cards with money as a game and chance, after obtaining search warrant from respondent No.3, the 2nd respondent with the assistance of respondents 1 and 4 who are police officers and 5 and 6 who are mediators, raised the club and detected the offences committed by the petitioners and others, seized the playing cards, cash of Rs. 7,239/-, furniture and thus registered Crime No. 150/94 under Sections 3 and 4 of A.P. Gaming Act, 1974 and issued FIR to the III Metropolitan Magistrate,