O R D E R

This is an application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, ‘ BNSS ’).

2. The petitioner is the sole accused in Crime No.1183/2025 of Alappuzha South Police Station. The offences alleged against the petitioner are punishable under Sections 127(2), 115(2), 118(2) and 109(1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case as narrated in Annexure A3 order reads thus:

“The victim is the daughter of defacto complainant. Petitioner is the mother-in-law of the victim. The petitioner was against the marriage of her son with the victim as the victim is elder than her son and this was her second marriage. Due to this reason, the petitioner harboured animosity towards the victim and she never allowed the couples to Iive together. Knowing that the son of the petitioner decided to live together in a rented house, on 01.10.2025 at about 7:00 p.m., he petitioner, took the victim in an autorickshaw and brought to her residence named Muttathiparambil House at Kuthirappanthi ward, Alappuzha. After entering the hall room of the said house, the petitioner forcefully tied her hands and legs using a yellow coloured plastic rope and her mo