Judgment

A.S. Naidu, J.— Both appellants were charged under Sections 332 and 333 of the Indian Penal Code for having voluntarily caused hurt to an employee of the Steel Authority of India Limited, Rourkela, a Government Company. Bereft of unnecessary details, the short facts of the case as revealed from the FIR are that on 23rd of November, 1984, P.W. 6 along with P.Ws. 1 and 14 who were employed as Land Guards of the Land Office of SAIL went to Sector 18 Jhumpudi Market to prevent the accused-appellants from attempting to unauthorisedly occupy a piece of land which was acquired by the State Government and allotted in favour of SAIL. The Land Guards when tried to demolish and remove the encroach-ments, it is alleged, the appellants got enraged and assaulted them with lathis. It was also stated that the people of the locality also gathered there and they pelted stones, as a result of which the personnel of SAIL were injured. On the basis of the said FIR, G.R. Case No. 2321 of 1984 was registered which was subsequently converted as S.T. No. 39/11 of 1986. Learned Additional Sessions Judge. Rourkela who tried the case, by his judgment dated 24th of October, 1986 has convicted the appe