The court held that petitioners should approach the jurisdictional Magistrate court for grievances when a final report has been filed, rather than seeking relief through writ petitions.

JUDGMENT :

W.P.(Crl.) No.891/2022 is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“(i) issue a writ of mandamus or any such other writ or order or directing the respondent No 2 to 4 to form a special investigation team headed by an officer not less than the rank of Deputy Superintend of Police to investigate Exhibit P10 to P12 FIR and complete the said investigation in a time frame as stipulated by this court under its supervision and guidance;

(ii) issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents No. 2 to 4 to take appropriate steps to prevent the respondent No. 7 to 11 from leaving this country.

(iii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents No. 5 and 6 to comply the direction issue by the 3^rd respondent to take urgent and appropriate action on Exhibit P15 complaint filed by the petitioners.

(iv) Issue writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents No. 2 to 4 to consider and pass order in Exhibit P13, P15 and P17 representations.

(v) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the 2^nd respondents to take appropriate steps to stall the functioning of the 7^th respondent.

(vi) pass any such further orders which this Hon'ble Court may consider appropriate in the interest of justice and necessary for ventilating the grievance of the petitioner.

(vii) This Hon'ble Court may be pleased to dispense with the filing of the English Translation of the vernacular documents filed in this Writ Petition on such terms and conditions as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of this case.”[SIC]

2. W.P.(Crl.) No.993/2022 is filed seeking the following reliefs:

“(i) issue a writ of mandamus or any such other writ or order or directing the respondent No 2 to 4 to form a special investigation team headed by an officer not less than the rank of Deputy Superintend of Police to investigate the offence committed by the respondents No.7 to 15 and complete the said investigation in a time frame as stipulated by this court under its supervision and guidance;

(ii) issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents No. 2 to 4 to take appropriate steps to prevent the respondent No. 7 to 15 from leaving this country.

(iii) Issue writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the respondents No. 2 to 6 to consider and pass order in Exhibit P1, P2 and P3 representations.

(iv) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the 2^nd respondents to take appropriate steps to stall the functioning of the 7^th respondent and 11^th respondent.

(v) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction directing the 16^th respondent to initiate action against the respondent No. 7 to 15.

(vi) pass any such further orders which this Hon'ble Court may consider appropriate in the interest of justice and necessary for ventilating the grievance of the petitioner.

(vii) This Hon'ble Court may be pleased to dispense with the filing of the English Translation of the vernacular documents filed in this Writ Petition (CRL) on such terms and conditions as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of this case.”[SIC]

3. When these cases came up for consideration, the Public Prosecutor submitted that the final report in these cases have already been filed and the matter is pending before the jurisdictional Magistrate court.

4. If that be the case, if the petitioners have got any further grievance, the petitioners can approach the jurisdictional Magistrate court with appropriate application. All the contentions raised by the petitioners in these writ petitions are left open.

With the above observation, these Writ Petitions (Crl.) are disposed of.