LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 — Authorities have rejected a news photographer’s complaint contending that movie director Roman Polanski assaulted him and stole his film after he snapped a picture of Po-anski kneeling at the grave of his dead wife, actress Sharon Tate.

“In the interest of justice we’ve rejected any criminal charge,” Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael J. Montagna on Wednesday.

The photographer, Curt Gunther, had complained to police that Polanski leaped upon him and snatched a costly motorized Nikon camera at Miss Tate’s gravesite in Holy Cross Cemetery. The incident occurred on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of Miss Tate’s murder by the Charles Manson family.

Polanski, 43, had pleaded guilty Monday in Superior Court to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year old girl.

Of Tuesday’s incident, Montagna said: “The only force used on Gunther was pulling the camera away from him and it was incidental to taking the camera in an effort to protect his own privacy and no injuries were sustained.”