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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.6 in Crime No.1559/2025 of Gandhinagar Police Station, Kottayam. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 61 (2), 140(3), 127(2), 118(1), 115(2), 351(3) and 309(4) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

3. The prosecution case in short is that the defacto complainant was a former employee of accused no.7. Accused no.7 suspected that the defacto complainant was storing his business secrets in his mobile phone. For the purpose of obtaining the mobile phone and to retaliate against the defacto complainant, accused no.7, through accused no.6, gave a quotation to hired goons to abduct and assault the defacto complainant and to rob his mobile phone. Accused no.6 arranged the quotation job with the other accused persons. The accused persons acted in concert and accused no.5, who was a former employee of accused no.7, provided the details of the routes routinely taken by the defacto complainant for his travel.

Thereafter, on 15.10.2025 at about 6.45 p.m., accused nos.1 and 2 abducted the defac