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.1 to 3 in Crime No.1024/2025 of Neyyar Dam Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 85, 115(2), 118(1), 110 read with

3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the defacto complainant was subjected to cruelty both physically and mentally by the applicants demanding more dowry and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Nikhil Sankar S., 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 the intentional criminal acts of the applic