crops or plea to look after business affairs. In this background, once the matter is subjudice and the questions relating to legality of arrest are under consideration, a Crl. Appeal a/o SLP (Crl.) No. 5154 of 2024 Page 5 of 8more holistic and libertarian view is justified, in the background that the 18th Lok Sabha General Elections are being held. 16. We will now refer to the judgments relied on behalf of the DoE: (i) In Anukul Chandra Pradhan v. Union of India and Others12, this Court rejected the constitutional challenge to sub-section (5) to Section 62 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, observing that the right to vote is not a constitutional right, and that the right can be curtailed. Interestingly, the proviso to the said sub-section states that a person subjected to preventive detention can vote. The prohibition was upheld on several grounds, including, inter alia, it promotes the object of free and fair elections. Indeed there are decisions of this Court that