Jaipur, Dec. 21 -- Rajasthan high court, while acquitting three railways police force staff in an alleged graft case in 2007 on Saturday, said that only a "trap" is not enough to prosecute someone accused in any corruption case. A single bench of the high court (Jaipur bench), presided over by justice Anand Sharma said, "The mere recovery of money (trap) was not enough to entitle the drawing of presumption under Section 20 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It would not be enough to say that the accused committed criminal misconduct. punishable under Section 13(1)(d) of the Act of 1988. The offence of criminal misconduct is one contemplated in all or any of the four clauses (a) to (d) of Section 13(1) of the Act of 1988 and where the accused is sought to be made guilty only under clause (d), it must be specified. The prosecution has to prove that the public servant intentionally, dishonestly, fraudulently made any efforts in obtaining pecuniary advantage either for himself or others." The three RPF officers - Kailash Chand Saini, Jagveer Singh, and Sanwar Lal Meena - who were caught by a team of the ACB in Sikar on July 2007 while accepting a Rs.5,000 bribe from an individual identified as Chiranjee Lal to remove his brother's name from a criminal case. "On 22.06.2007, the complainant had gone to Jaipur to collect LIC premium. When complainant's brother, Ramniwas, after taking a ticket from the counter came outside the boundary near the Municipal Council, he was stopped by Railway Officer, RS Kasana and allegation of illegal reselling of railway tickets was levelled against complainant's brother and after altercations, tickets were taken away by the officer. After one day, the complainant learnt that one case has been registered against the complainant as well as his brother in RPF Police Chowki. After case registration, complainant and his brother were called in RPF Police Chowki," read the charge sheet as quoted in order copy. When the complainant reached the police station to meet Saini (the then in-charge of RPF police station in Sikar), he was allegedly asked for a bribe. Chiranjee Lal, then, informed the matter to ACB who planned a trap and caught them red-handed and recovered the bribe money from Sanwar Lal (then-constable of the police station). An FIR was lodged against them under sections 7, 13(1)(d), 13(2), and 120-B of the Prevention of Corruption Act. In 2023, a special ACB court in Jaipur sentenced them to one year jail along with a Rs.5,000 penalty. On Saturday, the high court impugned the ACB court's order and acquitted the three accused on the ground that "they did not have any suitable reason to take such undue benefit." "The well-entrenched principle of criminal jurisprudence that an accused is presumed to be innocent and, therefore, the burden lies on the prosecution to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt is required to be considered here," read the judgement....