HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13931 of 2011 Date: 06.05.2011 Between : Rajula Bhaskar Reddy and others. … Petitioners. And The Superintendent of Police, Kadapa, Y.S.R. District and others. … Respondents. HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13931 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioners, who claim to be voters of Kadapa Parliamentary 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. 2. Learned Government Pleader for Home, on instructions submits that many of the petitioners are involved in various offences for which crimes were registered against them in various police stations and registering of such cases against the petitioners is also brought to the notice of the Court. 3. Mere involvement of the petitioners and registration of crimes against them for the offences committed by them will not debar them from exercising their franchise freely. 4. Therefore, the respondents-authorities are directed not to 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 confinement by the respondents in the police stations, if any, they shall be taken to the polling booths and shall provide necessary ballot papers for exercising their franchise in the ensuing elections. 5. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs. ____________________________ JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY Date: 6th May , 2011 Note: Communicate the operative portion by wire at party’s cost. (B/O) Msr HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13931 of 2011 Date: 6th May, 2011 (Msr)