M. R. Verma J.: This Revision Petition is directed against the judgment dated 22.1.1998 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sirmaur at Nahan whereby the conviction of and sentence awarded to the-petitioners by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class(2), Paonta Sahib under Section 332 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code was maintained.

2. Brief facts leading to the presentation of the present petition may be summarised as follows;

3. The accused alongwith so many other persons are the employees of Cement Corporation of India1 Ltd. Rajban which is a Government of India Enterprise. In the year 1986 there was a strike by the contract labourers in the said Corporation in which Atma Ram and Baldev Singh were suspended. When the strike was called off they were re-instated. On 27.10.1986 Atma Ram and S.K. Minhas were suspended for disobedience. On 29.10.1986 the petitioners and their co-accused formed an unlawful assembly at about 9 AM. Accused Alma Ram blew siren of the Factory of the Corporation and thereafter the accused including the petitioners started raising slogans against the Management. PW-4 Tarsem Lal sent PW-6 N.C. Patial to inquire about the blow