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4.1 Similar view was taken by Apex Court in "Sakiri Vasu Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh And Others [(2008) 2 SCC 409]" whereby while analyzing the sweep & extent of power vested in a Magistrate u/S.156(3) Cr.P.C., the Apex Court held in para 11 and 17 as under:

"11. In this connection we would like to state that if a person has a grievance that the police station is not registering his FIR under Section 154 Cr.P.C., then he can approach the Superintendent of Police under Section 154(3) Cr.P.C. by an application in writing. Even if that does not yield any satisfactory result in the sense that either the FIR is still not registered, or that even after registering it no proper investigation is held, it is open to the aggrieved person to file an application under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. before the learned Magistrate concerned. If such an application under Section 156 (3) is filed before the Magistrate, the Magistrate can direct the FIR to be registered and also can direct a proper investigation to be made, in a case where, according to the aggrieved person, no proper investigation was made. The Magistrate can also under the same provision monitor the investigation to ensure a proper investigation.
7. Chapter XII of Cr.P.C. (Information to Police and it's power to 9 MCRC.44485.2020 investigate) begins with Section 154. If the police finds that the information received relates to commission of cognizable offence then the same has to be entered into the document known as First Information Report (FIR) u/S.154 Cr.P.C. with supply of the copy of FIR to the informant. Section 154(3) Cr.P.C. provides remedy to the informant to approach the Superintendent of Police in case of refusal by the police station to register FIR u/S.154(1). 
(A)   WHERE        APPLICATION          U/S    156(3)     CRPC    ONLY

ALLEGES          NON-REGISTRATION               OF        COGNIZABLE

OFFENCE

       (i)    The Magistrate, on receiving an application u/S.156(3)

Cr.P.C. should first ensure that the application is supported by an affidavit of the applicant detailing about exhaustion of remedy u/S.154(1) and 154(3) Cr.P.C. [vide Priyanka Srivastava and another Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and others (2015) 6 SCC 287] (Para 31)].

(d) Pertinently, the bar contained in Sec.210 Cr.P.C. is based on following foundational assumptions:-

1. That, primacy and preference is to be given 19 MCRC.44485.2020 to police case [originating from FIR lodged u/S.154 Cr.P.C.], over proceedings originating from a complaint u/S.200 Cr.P.C.
2. The preference and primacy given to a police case is in turn based on the assumption that police being part and parcel of State performs the sovereign function of crime investigation in a fair, reasonable & expeditious manner.