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 and 3 to 6 in Crime No.1134/2025 of Santhanpara Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 115(2), 118(1), 126(2), 110, 74, r/w 3(5), of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ), 2023.

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

21.12.2025, at about 3.30 pm, the applicants along with the accused No.2 formed themselves into an unlawful assembly in front of the SNDP Branch office, Pooppara and in furtherance of their common object, manhandled the President of the said branch and also the de-facto complainant Sri.Suresh and another aged lady Smt.Omana and uttered obscene words to them. It is further alleged that they caused hurt to the said President Sri.Manoj using an iron ring by beating him on his head which he warded off causing injury to his forehead and thereby committed the alleged offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Praveen S, the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt.Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learn