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Arjun Marik vs State Of Bihar on 2 March, 1994

In a case where the other circumstances have not been convincingly proved its becomes imperative for the prosecution to prove the motive for the crime as explained by the Supreme Court in Arjun Marik vs. State of Bihar; 1994 Supp (2) SCC 372 in the following words: "..........mere absence of proof of motive for commission of a crime cannot be a ground to presume the innocence of an accused, if, the involvement of the accused is otherwise established. But it has to be remembered that in incidents in which the only evidence available is circumstantial evidence, then in that event, the motive does assume importance, if, it is established from the evidence on record that the accused had a strong motive and also an opportunity to commit the crime and the established circumstances along with the explanation of the accused, if any, exclude the reasonable possibility of anybody State Vs. Mandeep Singh Page No. 56 of 59 57 else being the perpetrator of the crime then the chain of evidence may be considered to show that within all human probability the crime must have been committed by the accused".
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