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'Mystery Surrounds Prosecution’s Case': SC Acquits Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Murdering Mother

Apex court set aside a July 2013 order of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court which upheld the conviction in the 2010 case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his mother. The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising Justices K V Viswanathan and K Vinod Chandran. "There is a mystery surrounding the genesis and origin of the prosecution case," said the bench.

The bench said on a complete reading of the evidence of four prosecution witnesses, who all admittedly landed up on the morning of July 22, 2010, at the site of the alleged attempted first cremation, "a lingering

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