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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
B.V.L.N. CHAKRAVARTHI, J.
Yacobu S/o Yelia – Appellant
Versus
The State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent
Writ Petition No. 19804 of 2019
Decided On : 24-11-2025
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| 1. writ petition dismissed as infructuous. (Para 1 , 4) |
| 2. police action based on petitioner’s report. (Para 2 , 3) |
ORDER :
1. None appeared for the petitioner.
2. Learned Assistant Government Pleader on written instructions would submit that the writ petitioner presented a report dated 08.11.2019 through registered post to police, but he did not attend before Station House Officer. Police after enquiry, registered a case in Cr.No.01/2020 for the offence under Sections 447 , 427, 506 r/w 34 of I.P.C. on 04.01.2020 of the Gonegundla Police Station, Kurnool District against unofficial respondent and taken up the investigation in this case. In that view of the matter, the writ petition has become infructuous.
3. The writ petition was filed alleging that the police did not register F.I.R. against the unofficial respondent, though the writ petitioner presented a report through post. In the written instructions of the learned Assistant Government Pleader, which discloses that on receipt of report of the writ petitioner through post, police registered F.I.R. as mentioned in the petition.
4. Recording the submissions of the Assistant Government Pleader for Home, the writ petition is dismissed as Infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs.
As a sequel thereto, interlocutory applications, if any, pending in this Writ Petition shall stand closed.
A writ petition alleging police inaction is rendered infructuous if an FIR is subsequently registered, displaying the principle that legal proceedings must have ongoing relevance.
The remedy for police failure to register an F.I.R. is not through a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, but by exhausting other remedies available under the Criminal Proced....
The main legal principle established is that the remedy for police failure to register an F.I.R. is not through a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, but through the remedie....
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