CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) IN this case we are presented with a difficult problem and faced with a strange situation, quite unprecedented, arising out of an unusual attitude adopted by the accused, who quite unmindful of the serious charge of murder made against them, refused to participate in the proceedings before the lower Court and persist in their refusal in this Court also. In the committal Court as well as in the court of Session, when examined by the presiding Magistrate and the Judge respectively, they plainly and bluntly stated that they had no faith in the law Courts of the land, established according to them to protect the interests of the landlords, capitalists and the like. They professed; to be "naxalbarites. " As they had not engaged any counsel to defend them and as they had refused to answer the question whether they were possessed of sufficient means to engage a Counsel, the learned Sessions Judge thought it desirable to appoint a Counsel at the cost of the state to defend them. He requested a senior practitioner of the Court to defend the m but the accused would have none of it and told the Sessions Judge that they did not want the services of a lawyer. The case

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