Babu vs State Of Kerala on 11 August, 2010
14. Absence of motive is not an imperative circumstance
to arrive at a conviction, in a case where there is ocular
evidence. The role of motive is not very significant even
when circumstances otherwise form an unbreakable chain.
Motive only provides another link, and the absence of
motive is a factor that weighs in favour of the accused as held
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in Babu v. State of Kerala3. We cannot find a motive in this
case; of the financial transaction having led to the crime.
Further, the prosecution case is that the deceased was
summoned over telephone, to the house of A2, on the
pretext of repaying the loan. But even PW-18 has no case
that the deceased left the house on such a mission, after a
telephone call. There is also no clear evidence as to whether
the deceased returned to his home in the evening of that
day.