ORDER

This application is filed u/s 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, 'the BNSS ') seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 and 2 n Crime No.957/2025 of Chirayinkeezhu Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126 (2), 118(1) and 118(2) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on

31.08.2025 at about 11.00 pm, while the defacto complainant was allegedly proceeding to his residence on a motorcycle and when he reached near Chovvazhcha Palli (Arayathuruthi Church), the applicants wrongfully restrained him and assaulted him with sticks resulting in fracture to both his cheek bones. It is further alleged that when the defacto complainant fell down, the applicant No.1 beat him again on his back with a stick and thereafter stabbed him on his chin using a knife and when the defacto complainant resisted, his right thumb was injured with the knife and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. P. Anoop, the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt. M.K. Pushpalatha, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case dia