under Section 376 of the IPC, by the judgment dated 30th September 1992, the accused were acquitted; c. Sixteen years after that, on 28th March 2008, the High Court interfered and remanded the case to the Trial Court to try the accused for the offence of gangrape under Section 376(2)(g) of the IPC; d. The Trial Court acquitted the accused by the impugned judgment dated 24th September 2008; e. While the High Court heard the appeal in 2017, the accused pleaded that their respective ages were in the range of 49 to 55 and that they had their families. In paragraph 5 of the impugned judgment, the High Court noted the same and their family responsibilities. What was in the back of the mind of the learned judges of the High Court was that they were dealing with an incident that had taken place Criminal Appeal no.2567 of 2024 etc. Page 14 of 15twenty-eight years back, and, in the meantime, the accused and their families had moved ahead in life. Therefore, the High Court was of the view that