The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who had been serving a life sentence for allegedly murdering his mother in 2010, observing that the prosecution’s case was shrouded in “mystery” and based entirely on weak circumstantial evidence.

A bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and K. Vinod Chandran set aside a July 2013 judgment of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court, which had upheld his conviction. The trial court had earlier sentenced him and another accused to life imprisonment. While the High Court had acquitted the co-accused, it had confirmed the appellant’s conviction.

According to the prosecution, the last rites of the deceased woman were conducted in haste. It alleged that the body was removed from the pyre after strangulation marks were noticed on the neck and an in

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