JUDGMENT

KULDIP SINGH, J.:—Appa Balu Ingale and four others were tried for the offences under Ss. 4 and 7 of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (the Act). The trial Court convicted all of them under S. 4 of the Act and sentenced them to undergo simple imprisonment for one month and a fine of Rs. 100/- each and in default to suffer simple imprisonment for further five days. Appa Balu Ingale was further convicted under S. 7 of the Act but no separate sentence was awarded to him for the said offence. The Additional Sessions Judge, Belgaum, on appeal, upheld the conviction and sentence of Appa Balu Ingale, Shankar Babaji Patil and Rajaram Rama Sankpal. The learned Judge, however, allowed the appeal of the other two convicts and acquitted them. Against the judgment of the Appellate Court Appa Balu Ingale and two others went in revision before the High Court. The learned single Judge of the Karnataka High Court allowed the criminal revision petition and acquitted all of them. This appeal by way of special leave petition is by the State of Karnataka against the judgment of the High Court. During the pendency of the appeal respondent Appa Balu Ingale died on November 4, 1991. The app