Supreme Court Acquits Man Convicted For Murdering Mother, Says Suicide Can't Be Ruled Out

The Supreme Court overturned a murder conviction and acquitted the accused, finding that the prosecution failed to exclude the reasonable possibility of suicide. On reappraisal of the evidence — forensic reports, injury patterns, circumstantial matrices, witness statements and inconsistencies in the trial record — the Court found that key facts were either unexplained or equally compatible with an alternative hypothesis of self-inflicted death. Because criminal guilt must be proved beyond reasonable doubt, where a plausible alternative (such as suicide) remains, conviction cannot stand. The judgement reiterates the sacrosanct principle that doubt benefits the accused and emphasises rigorous evaluation of circumstantial evidence; it also flags investigative shortfalls and evidentiary gaps that impeded conclusive proof of homicidal intent or external causation, warranting acquittal in the interest of justice.