ORDER

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

2. The applicants are the accused Nos. 2 and 5 in Crime No.887/2025 of Palarivattom Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section s 115 (2), 118(1), 118(2), 79 and 296(b) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

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

05/12/2025 at 11:30 p.m., the applicants along with the remaining accused assaulted the defacto complainant and her friends with an iron rod and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. K.M. Madhu, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri. M.C. Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicants with the alleged crime; hence, they are entitled to get bail. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor, on the other hand, submitted that the alleged incident occurred as a part of