HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13889 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioners, who claim to be voters of Kadapa and Pulivendula Assembly Constituency filed the present writ petition stating that even though they are not involved in any criminal cases, the police produced most of them before the concerned Tahsildar forcibly and obtained their signatures on the bonds by registering bind over cases under Section 107 of Criminal Procedure Code and they apprehend that all the petitioners will be called to the police station on 7.5.2011 and confined in the police station till 8.5.011 evening to see that they could not caste their votes in the ensuing elections. Learned Government Pleader for Home, on instructions submits that many of the petitioners are involved in several cases, which are registered against them in various police stations and the list of such cases is also submitted to the court. Since the petitioners have the right to exercise their franchise freely, the respondents-authorities shall not confine the petitioners on the date of polling, i.e. on 8.5.2011, without following due process of law. In the event of their arrest by the respondents, they will be provided with necessary ballot papers for exercising their franchise in the ensuing elections. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _________________ A. GOPAL REDDY,J DATE: 4th May , 2011 Note: Communicate the operative portion By wire at party’s costs. B/o pnb