2024 INSC 823 Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No. 2129 of 2014 The State of Madhya Pradesh …Appellant(s) Versus Ramjan Khan & Ors. …Respondent(s) J U D G M E N T C.T. RAVIKUMAR, J. 1. This appeal is against the judgment of acquittal dated 31.01.2013 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Gwalior in Criminal Appeal No. 602 of 1998 in reversal of the judgment of conviction recorded against the appellants therein viz., the respondents herein, by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Sironj in Sessions Trial No. 320 of 1996 dated 28.10.1998. 2. Heard learned counsel for the appellant State and learned counsel for the respondents, the convicts who were acquitted by the High Court vide the impugned judgment. Page 1 of 21 Criminal Appeal No. 2129 of 20143. The case of the prosecution, in succinct, was as under: - ‘On 01.10.1996, at about 1.00 pm, the respondents herein viz., Ramjan Khan, Musaf Khan @ Musab Khan and Habib Khan,