ORDER

These applications are 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.1147/2022 of Adimaly Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 120B, 465, 468, 471 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicants, in furtherance of their common intention, dishonestly misappropriated the property that belonged to the defacto complainant's deceased wife, which had devolved upon the defacto complainant after her death. It is alleged that on 04.06.2020, the accused No.1 prepared a forged Will deed using stamp papers bearing Nos. BX586502 and BX586800 along with four white sheets, wherein she fraudulently affixed the forged signature of the defacto complainant's late wife, and that accused Nos.2 and 3 attested the said document as witnesses knowing it to be false. Through this fabricated deed, the accused No.1 purported to transfer in her favour the property situated in Vellathooval Village, Re-survey No.44/2, measuring 4 Are 05 Sq. metres, together with the two-storied residentia