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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.1 and 2 in Crime No. 1456/2025 of Vaikom Police Station, Kottayam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 115 (2), 118(2), 126(2), 296(b) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

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

05.09.2025 at about 09:30 p.m., due to their previous enmity towards the informant, at the Kattikkunnu-Palakkari Fish Farm road, situated near the house of Hassan Karikilamparambu, the accused persons, with the intent to cause grievous hurt to the informant, shared common intention and wrongfully restrained him; then applicant No.1 abused him with obscene words, slapped him on his face and inflicted a blow with a stick on his right hand, causing fracture of right ring finger; then the applicant No.2 inflicted blows on his left hand and back with a cadjan stick, causing hurt; then accused Nos.3 and 4 punched him on his face and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Smt. Meenakshy Parvathy, the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt.