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 4 in Crime No.2532/2025 of Kottarakkara Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 3 2 (c), 115(2), 118(1), 117(2), 351(2), 324(4) read with Section 3 (5)

of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that due to previous animosity against the informant, with intention to cause physical harm to him, on 02.11.2025, the applicants trespassed into the painting workshop being run by the informant in two motor cycles and the applicant No.2 caught hold on the shirt of the informant and the applicant No.1 caused fracture on his nose by hitting him. They beat on his head and face causing pain. When he tried to escape, applicant Nos.3 and 4 came to the workshop and the applicant No.3 beat him with a stick on his ankle causing pain. Applicant Nos.1, 2 and 4 stamped him causing pain, when he fell on the ground and threatened, Savio and Bineesh tried to intercept them. The applicant No.3 fisted on his head with a fiber glass taken from the