O R D E R

This is an application filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023.

2. The petitioner is accused No.3 in Crime No.896/2025 of Ottappalam Police Station, Palakkad. The offences alleged against the petitioner and the other accused are punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 118(2) and 110 r/w Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

3. The prosecution case, as narrated in Annexure A order, reads thus:-

“..on 06.10.2025 at 20.30 hours, at Pathiripala Pookkattukunnu road, accused Nos.1 to 5, due to enmity that a complaint was lodged for beating and injuring a person named Abdul Azeez against the friends of accused No.1, wrongfully restrained the defacto complainant, accused No.1 stabbed him with a knife on the muscle of the left hand, accused No.2 hit him with a stone on the fingers of the left hand, accused No.3 kicked him on the chest and accused Nos.4 and 5 beat him with their hands on the body. Thereby the defacto complainant sustained injuries. If the defacto complainant had not blocked the stab by accused No.1 by using his hand, he would have sustained serious injury on the chest resulting in his death for which acc