HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 10239 OF 2011 . DATED 20TH JUNE, 2011 BETWEEN Vaibhav Sisodiya …Petitioner And State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Home Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and ors ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No.10239 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner has prayed that a direction be issued to the second respondent not to keep him under solitary confinement and to treat him as an under-trail prisoner by restoring all his rights including meeting with family members, supply of food, clothing etc.,. The petitioner is an under-trail prisoner/accused No.1 in SC No. 259 of 2009 (crime No. 990 of 2008) on the file of the I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Nampally, Hyderabad, which was registered for the offence punishable under Sections 147, 148, 302, 120-B read 149 of IPC and Sections 25 and 27 of Arms Act. It has been averred that the second respondent is keeping the petitioner in solitary confinement in the Cherlapally jail despite the fact that the petitioner has not been convicted yet. It has been further averred that the second respondent is not allowing the relatives and friends to meet the petitioner and hence the action of the respondents is in violation of the fundamental rights of the under-trail prisoner envisaged under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the second respondent, wherein it is stated that the petitioner has never been kept in solitary confinement. Apart from the above, the second respondent placed before this Court a chart, which shows the dates on which the brother and friends of the petitioner were allowed to meet him. A perusal of the same shows that brother and friends of the petitioner had met him on 77 occasions from 27.11.2009 to 9.4.2011. After going through the facts of the case, it is clear that the petitioner has never been kept under solitary confinement and relatives and friends of the petitioner have been allowed to meet him on several occasions. In view of the categorical statements of the respondents in their counter affidavit, I do not see any merit in the Writ Petition. The Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. -------------------------------------- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 20th June, 2011. Msnro