JUDGMENT :

DINESH MAHESHWARI, J.

1. The appellant herein, who had lodged an FIR dated 12.02.2010 [bearing No.62(7) 2011 of Laitumkhrah Police Station, East Khasi Hills District, Shillong] alleging manipulation of marks and use of false certificates in the process of recruitment to the post of Assistant Teacher in Government L.P. Schools, preferred a writ petition [WP(C) No.161 of 2016] essentially with the prayer that the investigation in the said FIR be transferred to Central Bureau of Investigation ['CBI'] as, according to the appellant, several State functionaries were involved in the matter and the investigation was not properly proceeding ahead. However, by the impugned order dated 03.10.2016, the learned Single Judge of this Court declined to proceed with the writ petition after the respondents stated that the matter in issue was pending before the Hon'ble Supreme Court in a petition for Special Leave to Appeal ('SLP'). Aggrieved by the order so passed by the learned Single Judge, the petitioner/appellant seeks to maintain this intra court appeal.

2. At the initial stage in the said writ petition, it appeared before the Court that there had been another litigation concerning the