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

2. The applicant is accused No.3 in Crime No.708/2025 of Peruvanthanam Police Station, Idukki. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 25 (1-B), 9(a) and

3 of the Arms Act .

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

16.10.2025 at about 1.20 a.m., accused persons were found travelling in a pickup vehicle bearing registration no.KL-38 K-4374 through the Kokkayar-Kootickal road. The accused persons were carrying a country-made firearm. During the act of passing the firearm from one person to another, the weapon accidentally slipped and fell to the ground and the same was taken into lawful custody for further investigation as per the seizure mahazar and thereby the accused committed the aforesaid offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Anil K. Muhamed, the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.M.K. Pushpalatha, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

The applicant has admitted that he was driving the