PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 27 -- The Allahabad high court, commenting on the judicial system, observed that real remedial measures such as increasing the number of judges, their supporting staff and infrastructure are the need of the hour, as merely holding conferences and meetings can never ameliorate the situation. The court made this remark while acquitting a man who had spent approximately 23 years in jail on charges of the gruesome murder of his wife and three children, after concluding that the prosecution's evidence did not conclusively prove that he committed the offence. The bench, comprising justice Siddharth and justice Jai Krishna Upadhyay, observed that the case was a sad commentary on our criminal justice delivery system and required introspection. While acquitting the accused, the bench commented that his real punishment has not come to an end, and his real ordeal will begin after his release. The bench noted: "His parents and siblings may not be alive. His wife and three children have already died and whether his surviving son, PW-2, Ajeem, who must be aged about 25-26 years now, will welcome his father to his house is also not certain." Briefly put, as per the prosecution's case, on the intervening night of August 29 and 30, 2003, the accused-appellant, Raees, slit the throats of his wife and their three children using a knife following a domestic altercation. The FIR was lodged by the deceased wife's uncle. The trial court subsequently found him guilty of committing four murders and sentenced him to life imprisonment.Later, HC noted that during the cross-examination of the sole eye-witness--the child, he admitted to giving tutored statements at the behest of the informant and a government advocate. The boy confessed that he was threatened with eviction from the informant's house if he did not testify as directed....