ORDER

This is an application filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, ‘ BNSS ’).

2. The petitioner has directly approached this Court without moving an application before the Sessions Court concerned.

3. It is the case of the petitioner that, as the victim in the case is a lawyer practicing in the Palakkad Bar Association, no lawyers practicing there are willing to accept his vakalat. Thus, the petitioner has placed an exceptional circumstance for making an application under Section 482 of BNSS directly before this Court.

4. The petitioner is the accused in Crime No.1061 /2025 of Palakkad Town North Police Station. The offences alleged against the petitioner are punishable under Sections 78 and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Sections 119 (a) and 119(b) of the Kerala Police Act , 2011.

5. The prosecution case is as follows:

On 09.09.2025, at about 18:50 hours, the defacto complainant boarded a private bus, namely ‘Kandath Motors,’

from the Stadium Bus Stand, Palakkad. The accused also boarded the same bus, sat on the rear seat, and tried to take the complainant’s photograph. When she questioned him, the petitioner made sexually