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 sole accused in Crime No.742/2025 of Karimannoor Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 115 (2), 118(2), 126 (2) and 296(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023. 3. The prosecution case, in short, is that due to prior animosity, the applicant assaulted the defacto complainant on 30.09.2025 at about 10 a.m. with his bare hand and when the defacto complainant blocked the assault of the applicant, the applicant assaulted the defacto complainant with a plastic chair lying in front of a tea shop, which caused fracture to the left hand of the defacto complainant and thereby committed the above offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Latheesh Sebastian, the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.Sreeja V. the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant