ORDER :

Each of the petitioners has been convicted under S. 447, I.P.C., and sentenced to R.I. for 15 days.

2. It is the case of the prosecution that the petitioners held a meeting on 12-2-1962 in the premises of the Office of the Sub-Divisional Officer, Bargarh, and gave speeches through a mike and thereby caused annoyance to the Deputy Collector (P.W. 1) and his head clerk (P.W. 2) and as a result of the said meeting, such a disturbance was created that no person in the office of P.W. 1 could work. P.W. 2 brought this fact to the notice of the Second Officer P.W. 3, who directed P.W. 2 to lodge information before the Police and to direct the organisers of the meeting to stop the meeting and to change its venue. P.W. 1 lodged F.I.R. (Ext. 1) and after investigation charge-sheet was submitted against the petitioners under S. 447, I.P.C.

3. The plea of the accused petitioners was that they did not hold the meeting in the office premises of the S.D.O., nor did they cause any annoyance to anybody. The plea of the petitioner Sajan Mithal was that the Congress Party is harassing him by starting false cases against him since he belonged to the Socialist Party.

4. The prosecution examined so