IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 21550 of 2009 Between: F.Shahabuddin . .Petitioner And Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. By its Principal Secretary, Home Department, Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.21550 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner filed this Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in interfering with the petitioner’s constitutional and fundamental rights and threatening and harassing the petitioner as being illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional and violative of fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and direct the respondents not to subject the petitioners to any harassment or implicate false cases. 2. The main grievance of the petitioner is that the 3rd respondent, at the instance of respondent Nos.4 to 6, summoned the petitioner to attend P.S. Morthad, made him to sit for five hours in the police station. The 3rd respondent threatened the petitioner with dire consequences and cautioned him that false criminal cases will be booked against the petitioner, if he did not pay the amounts mentioned in the alleged promissory notes to respondent Nos.4 to 6. Despite the petitioner’s denial that he had never executed any promissory notes in favour of respondent Nos.4 to 6, the 3rd respondent did not heed his words and the police are interfering with his constitutional and fundamental rights, threatening and harassing him without following due process under law and hence, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for respondent Nos.1 to 3. 4. Having considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to respondents not to interfere with the petitioner’s personal liberty without following due process of law. 5. With the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J October 09, 2009 KSH