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. 2 and 3 in Crime No.1028/2025 of Kattakada Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (1), 189(2), 191(1), 191(2), 191(3), 296(b), 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 118(2) and 110 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 (for short, 'the BNS ').

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused No.1 on 28/07/2025 at around 5.30 pm, near a waiting shed at Thunippad, Kulathummal Village, due to the reason that the defacto complainant, informed the father of the accused No.1 of an earlier assault by the accused No.1 upon him, is alleged to have verbally abused and later assaulted him using an iron rod causing fracture to his knee joint and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Nikhil Sankar S., the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt. M.K. Pushpalatha, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the present cas