Applicant has by this revision petition challenged the judgement of the learned Sessions Judge, Goa, Daman and Diu rendered in Criminal Appeal No. 74/71 by which the learned Sessions Judge confirmed applicant's conviction and sentence of the month's simple imprisonment under Section 353 I.P.C.

2. Applicant at the relevant time was a journalist and editor of a fortnightly namely "The Blade" published from Panaji. The alleged incident took place on 23-7-1968 at about 4 p.m. in the office of the Director of Information and Tourism. It was alleged that on the date and time of the incident the applicant was talking loudly in the office of the above department and disturbing the staff working there. Ramesh Jatkar who was the Information Officer in the Department of Information and Tourism came out of the Director's room and asked the applicant to leave the Office as he was causing disturbance. The applicant instead of leaving the office assaulted Jatkar by catching hold of his neck-tie and shaking him.

3. The defence of the applicant in the trial Court was that the entire case was concocted. The applicant had been criticising the working of the Department of the Information and