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This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking regular bail.

2. The applicant is the sole accused in Crime No.600/2025 of Nadapuram Police Station, Kozhikode District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 309(4) and 238(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 25.06.2025 at

09.50 a.m., the applicant, who came in a scooter along the Kanjipuramukku–Mudavantheri road, had snatched away a gold chain weighing 3½ sovereigns worn by the defacto complainant and thereby committed the aforementioned offences.

4. I have heard Sri.P.Mohamed Sabah, 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 has been in custody since 15.09.2025 and the grounds of arrest were not communicated in accordance with law at the time of his arrest. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor on the other hand opposed the bail application and submitted that the grounds of arrest were duly communicated.

6. Though prima facie ther