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This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 and 2 in Crime No.2037/2025 of Kundara Police Station, Kollam. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 115(2), 118(1) and 351(2) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 04.10.2025 at about 4.30 p.m. while the complainant, who is an autorickshaw driver, was driving his vehicle, the applicants were coming in another car and they got out of their car and assaulted the complainant alleging that he did not give sufficient space to their car to move forward. The applicants had slapped on the face of the complainant and fisted him. One of the accused had brandished a knife towards him, which resulted in an injury on the hand of the complainant. It is further alleged that two among the assailants had stamped on the abdomen of the complainant and brutally tortured him.

4. I have heard Smt.Priya Shanavas, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C. Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

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