New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his mother, saying there was a "mystery" surrounding the genesis and origin of the prosecution case.

A bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and K Vinod Chandran set aside a July 2013 order of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court which upheld his conviction in the 2010 case.

The prosecution alleged that the last rites of the deceased were hurriedly carried out and the body was removed from the pyre after strangulation marks on the neck and an injury on the backside of the skull were found.

The bench observed that the case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence.

"There is a mystery surrounding the genesis and origin of the prosecution case," it said.

It referred t

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