These criminal original petitions have been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for the relief of either directing the concerned police to register a case or to transfer the investigation from the regular police to some other investigating agency or fixing a time limit for filing the final report etc.

2. Petitions are being filed, wherein, in some cases, the complainant has not even gone to the police station but has sent the complaint by post either to the concerned police or to the Superintendent of Police. Thereafter, they approach the High Court for issuing direction to register the case, forgetting the provision contained under Section 154 Cr.P.C.

3. There are also petitions for direction to register a case in civil disputes as well as in family disputes in which police have no business to interfere. There are also some petitions for directing the concerned police to further investigate the matter.

4. As already stated, a complaint should be given to the concerned police and if the Station House Officer refused to register the complaint, then a copy of the complaint can be sent to the Superintendent of Police or any other competent officer mentioned under Section 36 C