Judgment

MUDHOLKAR, J.: This is an appeal by special leave from the summary dismissal of the appellants application for revision by the High Court of Punjab.

2. Eight persons were tried by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Delhi for offences under S. 148, S. 333/149 and S. 332/149, Indian Penal Code. He acquitted five of them but convicted the three appellants before us of all the three offences and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year in respect of the offence under S. 148, rigorous imprisonment for two years in respect of the offence under S. 332/149, rigorous imprisonment for three years for the offence under S. 333/149 and ordered that all the sentences will run concurrently. In appeal the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi set aside the convictions and sentences passed on the appellants for offences under S. 148 and S. 333/149 altered the conviction of each of the appellants from one under S. 332/ 149 to S. 332 simpliciter and awarded the same sentence in respect of it as had been awarded by the Assistant Sessions Judge in respect of the offence under S. 332/ 149.

3. Briefly stated the prosecution case was that on September 16, 1961, Mukhtiar Singh, Licensing In