ORDER

This is an application for anticipatory bail. The petitioners are the accused Nos.1 and 2 in Crime No.940/2021 of Ezhukone Police Station alleging offences punishable under Sections 452 , 427 and 308 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code . The complaint was registered on the basis of the First Information Statement given by one Nithin, who is nephew of the petitioners. The allegations against the petitioners are that on account of some dispute relating to property, they entered into the house of their sister Vasanthakumari and attacked Vasanthakumari, her mother Omana (also mother of petitioners 1 and 2) and children of Vasanthakumari namely Nithin, (the defacto complainant) and Sudhin, his younger brother.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners are absolutely innocent of the offences alleged against them. It is submitted that they had gone to their sister Vasanthakumari’s house and they had been attacked by the defacto complainant and his brother Sudhin and they had sustained injuries on account of such attack. Reference is made to wound certificates in respect of the petitioners, which are produced as Annexures A4 and A5. It is