ORDER

This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-

arrest bail.

2. The applicant is the accused in Crime No.114/2025 of Mananthavady Excise Range Office, Wayanad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 58 , and 10 read with 63 of the Kerala Abkari Act .

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

09.10.2025 at 8.00 a.m., while the Excise Inspector was conducting vehicle checking, they intercepted a 'Maruthi Suzuki Wagon R' bearing registration No. KL-13/K-7353 which slowed down seeing the signal, then the driver accelerated and fled at high speed. Thereafter, the vehicle was found in an abandoned state with 78.5 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor intended to be sold in Union Territory of Puduchery.

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

5. The learned counsel for t