Supreme Court Legal Update #36
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in Subhash Aggarwal v. The State of NCT of Delhi (Neutral Citation: 2025 INSC 499) observed that “....... The declaration in the cited decisions and the decisions relied on therein, is to the effect that if the case is built solely upon circumstantial evidence, absence of motive will be a factor that weighs in favour of the accused. Just as a strong motive does not by itself result in a conviction, the absence of motive on that sole ground cannot result in an acquittal.....”
