IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION NO.12459 OF 2011 DATED:28.6.2011 Between: Jambapuram Muni Reddy … Petitioner And The Election Commission of India Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-1 and others … Respondents … Respondents THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION NO.12459 OF 2011 ORDER: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) The petitioner questions Memo No.1187/Elecs.F/2008-10, dated 24-5-2008 but in our opinion it does not call for any deliberation, reason being that it has been revised by communication dated 27-05- 2008 clause (1) whereof is sought to be quashed alleging it to be arbitrary. Said clause may be noticed. “The polling agents who are appointed by the contesting candidates shall be elector in the same polling booth, or in the alternative from the neighbouring revenue village in the rural areas or Wards/Divisions in the urban areas, part of the constituency, for which elections are being conducted.” The purpose of clause aims at availability and the assistance of the polling agents to the contesting candidates and with that objective it is provided that in case an agent is not available from the same polling booth the candidate can engage a polling agent from neighbouring village in the rural areas or wards/divisions in the urban areas, apparently someone within the constituency. In essence the impugned order provides an alternative which stands to reason and cannot be said to be arbitrary by any stretch of imagination. Viewed thus, writ petition is dismissed. VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, CJ 28-6-2011 B. Narsinga Rao