O R D E R

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

2. The petitioner is the sole accused in Crime No.628/2024 of the Poochakkal Police Station, Alappuzha, which is registered against him for allegedly committing the offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 117(2), 126(2), 296(b), 351(2), 62, 74, 75(2), 75(3), 76 and 78(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that: on

13.07.2024, at 16:00 hours, while the defacto complainant was walking on the public road, the accused with an intention to outrage her modesty, had wrongfully restrained her, abused her in obscene language, and then caught hold of her garments and attempted to disrobe her. When the de facto complainant attempted to escape from the scene of occurrence, the clothes got torn. When the husband of the de facto complainant attempted to intervene in the matter, the accused abused her husband in obscene language and beat him on his right hand and he suffered a fracture of his middle finger. Thus, the accused has committed the above offences.

4. Heard; Smt. Sulfia M.A. the learned cou