JUDGMENT :

The petitioner is a businessman and is engaged in the sale of electronic and electrical home appliances. He has approached this Court complaining of inaction on the part of the Police in extending protection to him from the obstructions caused by respondents 3 and 4 in running the above business in a legal manner.

2. The petitioner states that he is running a retail business in the name and style as ‘Good Morning Enterprises’ and his distribution business as ‘Sree Lakshmi Distributors’. The items dealt with by him are Televisions, Fridges, Air Conditioners, Washing Machines, Microwave Ovens, Water Purifiers, Food Processors and other home appliances. For the purpose of storing the goods, he has taken on lease Building No.46/784 of Alappuzha Municipal Corporation. He states that he has engaged skilled persons to handle the goods. He further states that the home appliances dealt with by the petitioner contains electronic circuit boards and complex circuitry and if those expensive equipment are mishandled or dropped by workers with no training, the petitioner is likely to sustain insurmountable loss. He has given the names of three workers who are permanently attached to Sree