JUDGMENT

 Balwant Singh, who was working as an Assistant in the office of D. P. I. Punjab in Chandigarh and Bhupinder Singh serving as a Senior Clerk in the Punjab School Education Board, Chandigarh, at the relevant time, were on 31st October, 1984 at about 5.45 p.m. arrested from near Neelam Cinema, Chandigarh and after completion of the investigation, tried for offences under Ss. 124A, and 153-A, I. P. C. They were each sentenced to suffer one year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 500/- on cash of the two counts. In default of payment of fine, they had to undergo three months further R. I. on each count. The substantive sentences were to run concurrently. Through this appeal under Section 14 of the Terrorist Affected Areas (Special Courts) Act, 1984 both of them have challenged their conviction and sentence as recorded by the learned Judge of the Special Court, Chandigarh on 2-3-1985.

2. The prosecution case against the appellants is that in a crowded place in front of the Neelam Cinema, on 31st October 1984, the day Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India was assassinated, after coming out from their respective offices after the duty hours, raised the followin