( 1 ) THIS appeal by the State of Gujarat is directed against the impugned judgment and order dated 6-5-1994, rendered in Special Case No. 4 of 1993 passed by the learned Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural), wherein the respondent-Ghanshyamsinh Ranchhodsinh Vaghela, on his coming to be tried for the alleged offence punishable under Secs. 13 (1) (d), (i), (ii), (iii) and 13 (2) of the prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, was at the end of the trial ordered to be acquitted.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the prosecution, PW-4 Virsinh Ambaliyar, P. I. , A. C. B. , ahmedabad, on 9-11-1989 received information that near Narol Highway Road, local police, traffic police, police attached to the Mobile Court and Forest Officers were demanding and accepting the bribes on one pretext or the other from the drivers of the vehicles passing to and fro. On the basis of this information, PW-4 requisitioned services of two Panch witnesses, viz. , PW-2 Mahendra Naranbhai, and sunil Manubhai (not examined) employees serving in R. T. O. , and on their appearing before him on 10-1-1989 at 8-15 A. M. in A. C. B. office, they were posted with the aforesaid information and were instructed to accompany him