COMMON ORDER

The above applications are filed under Section 482 of the Bharathiya Nagarik Suraksha Samhita , for an order of pre-arrest bail.

2. The petitioners are accused Nos. 2 to 4 in Crime No.1022 of 2024 of the North Police Station, Alappuzha, which is registered against four accused persons for allegedly committing the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 296(b), 115(2), 118(1) and 110 read with Section 3(5) of the BNS. BA No.8090 of 2024 is filed by accused Nos.2 and 3, while BA No. 6815 of 2024 is filed by the fourth accused. As these applications arise from the same crime, they are consolidated, jointly heard and are being disposed of by this common order.

3. The prosecution, in brief, is that: on 21.07.2024 at around 4.00 hours, the accused, in furtherance of their common intention, had wrongfully restrained the defacto complainant and his friend named Shaji (injured), and the first accused hit the defacto complainant on his hands and legs with an iron pipe, the second accused hit him o