THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION NO.13126 OF 2006 Between : B. Thimmappa, S/o. Thimmayya, Gattu, Mahaboobnagar District. …... PETITIONER And 1. The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Station House Officer, Gattu Police Station, Gattu Mandal, Mahaboobnagar District, and another. …....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioner: Sri K.V. Rajendra Prasad Counsel for the respondent No.1: G.P. for Home Counsel for the respondent No.2: Sri V.V. Prabhakara Rao The Court made the following. ORDER: This writ petition was filed on the eve of the elections to MPTC and ZPTC scheduled to be held on 2.07.2006. The petitioner claims to be a member of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society, Gattu, Mahaboobnagar District. He is an eligible voter for the elections to the MPTC and ZPTC of Gattu village. He also claims to have served as President of the District Cooperative Bank, Mahaboobnagar District. In the elections he was a polling agent to one of the contesting candidates. His wife was also a contesting candidate to the post of Baligera MPTC. The grievance of the petitioner is that on the eve of the elections he was being called to the police station every day and threatened with dire consequences if he participated in the elections, since he belongs to a main opposition political party in the State. The 1st respondent without any justification and without there being any crime registered against him was resorting to detain him illegally in order to prevent him from exercising his franchise. He therefore filed this writ petition to declare the action of the respondent in calling him to the police station everyday and yielding threat by detaining him in the police station as illegal and consequently to direct the 1st respondent not to interfere his with personal liberty in participating in the elections scheduled to be held on 2.07.2006. This Court in W.P.M.P.No.16320 of 2006 dated 29.06.2006 issued interim directions forbearing the 1st respondent to interfere with the liberty of the petitioner in participating in the said elections observing that the said interim orders would not come in the way of the police for initiating appropriate action if the petitioner had involved in any serious offences. In view of the said interim orders of this Court, I am of the opinion that the grievance of the petitioner has already been met and no further orders are required in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly closed. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ NOUSHAD ALI, J. 16th December, 2010 Js.