JUDGMENT

Thomas, J.-Bilal Ahmad Kaloo, a Kashmiri youth had a sojourn in the city of Hyderabad and was involved in a prosecution under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987, (for Short 'TADA'). Though the Designated Court under TADA has acquitted him of the offences under TADA he was convicted of sedition under Section 124-A of Indian Penal Code and was sentences to imprisonment for life, besides being convicted of certain other lesser offences for which a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for three years was awarded under each count. This appeal has been preferred by the said convicted person under Section 19 of the TADA.

2. The case against the appellant in short is the following. Appellant was an active member of a militant outfit called A1- Jehad which was formed with the ultimate object of liberating Kashmir from India Union. With this in mind appellant spread communal hatred among the Muslim youth in the old city of Hyderabad and exhorted them to undergo training in armed militancy and offered them arms and ammunitions. He himself was in possession of lethal weapons like country-made revolver and live cartridges. He was propagating among the Muslims that