THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T. VINOD KUMAR Writ Petition No. 9552 of 2025

ORDER

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Government Pleader for Home appearing for respondent Nos.1 to 5, and with the consent of the learned counsel appearing for the parties, the Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal at the admission stage.

2. Having regard to the manner of disposal of the Writ Petition at the admission stage and the nature of lis involved, this Court is of the view that notice to unofficial respondent Nos.6 and 7 is not necessary for adjudication of the present Writ Petition.

3. Shorn of unnecessary details, the case of the petitioners, in brief, is that the 5^th respondent is frequently calling the petitioners to the police station and making them sit for long time without issuing any notice and without there being any crime registered against them, which action of the respondents it is contended is highly illegal and arbitrary.

4. Petitioners further contend that it is the petitioners who had approached the respondents-authorities and lodged a complaint on 12.03.2205 against the 7^th respondent and that the respondents- authorities, without taking any action on the aforesaid complaint, on the other hand, are calling them to the police station and trying to interfere in civil dispute and also trying to dispossess the petitioners from the land in dispute to benefit the unofficial respondents. Hence, the present Writ Petition.

5. Per contra, learned Government Pleader for Home appearing on behalf of respondent Nos.1 to 5 would submit that the respondents- authorities are in receipt of the complaint dt.12.03.2025 from the petitioners against the 7^th respondent, sent through registered post.

6. Learned Government Pleader further submits that the respondents- authorities, on receiving the aforesaid complaint, made a GD entry and in order to cause preliminary enquiry into the aforesaid complaint, called the petitioners to the police station; that as the petitioners complained of the 7^th respondent and her sons by entering into their land have undertaken excavation, the respondents-authorities have visited the subject site for the purpose of enquiry; and that except causing enquiry into the aforesaid complaint lodged by the petitioners for taking further action, the authorities never interfered in the civil dispute, if any, between the petitioners and the 7^th respondent, nor called the petitioners to police station frequently.

7. Learned Government Pleader would further submit that since the petitioners had lodged the complaint, the authorities have called upon them to come with the relevant documents for the authorities to take further action in the matter and the petitioners instead of furnishing basic information required for the purpose of looking into the contents of the complaint and to cause enquiry for them to take further action, have approached this Court.

8. I have taken note of the respective contentions urged.

9. Admittedly, there is no case registered against the petitioners as of date for the petitioners to be apprehensive of any action being taken against them by the respondents-police. On the other hand, the petitioners have approached the respondents-authorities by submitting a representation/complaint dt.12.03.2025 against the actions of the 7^th respondent herein. The respondents-authorities on receiving the aforesaid complaint having made a GD entry are required to cause preliminary enquiry before taking further action.

10. Since, the learned Government Pleader appearing on behalf of the respondents-authorities had stated before this Court that, except causing enquiry into the aforesaid complaint lodged by the petitioners, the authorities are not interfering in civil disputes or trying to dispossess the petitioners from their land to benefit the unofficial respondents, this Court is of the view that the respondents-authorities are to be directed to cause enquiry into the complaint lodged by the petitioners