Dated this the 29th day of May, 2024 This is an application for anticipatory bail, filed by accused Nos.1 to 5 in Crime No.239/2024 of Nileswar Police Station, Kasaragod.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners, the learned counsel appearing for the de facto complainant/additional 2nd respondent and the learned Public Prosecutor.

3. I have perused the relevant documents form part of the case diary.

4. Precisely, the prosecution case is that, at about 4.00

a.m., on 7.4.2024, while the de facto complainant along with her relatives went for a festival at a temple in Puliyannur, accused Nos.1 to 5 along with other 10 persons formed into an unlawful assembly, with knowledge that they are all members of the said assembly, in prosecution of their common object and thereby, wrongfully restrained and assaulted the de facto BAIL APPL. NO. 3549 OF 2024 4 complainant and her relatives. The further allegation is that the 3rd accused hold on the shoulder of the sister of the de facto complainant and caught hold on her churidar and thereby, all accused alleged to have committed offences punishable under Sections 143 , 147, 341, 323, 354 r/w Section 149 of the IPC .

5. The learned couns