ORDER

This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS), seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 and 3 to 6 in Crime No.1479/2025 of Vadakkencherry Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189(2), 191(2), 191(3), 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 118(2), 324(4) and 324(5) read with 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the defacto complainant and his family members warned the accused No.1, who was in love with the defacto complainant’s aunt’s granddaughter. Infuriated by this, on 27.12.2025 at 9:45 p.m. at Nattukal, Manjapra, accused Nos.1 to 7, along with 25 other identifiable persons, in prosecution of their common object to commit rioting, formed themselves into an unlawful assembly with the knowledge that they were the members of such assembly. While the defacto complainant and his relatives were returning home after Manjapra Arattu festival, the accused No.2 caught hold of the defacto complainant’s shirt collar and wrongly restrained him, while accused No.1 voluntarily caused hurt to him by hitting him with a sto