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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, 2 and 3 in Crime No.979/2025 of Nilambur Police Station, Malappuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126(2), 118(2), 115(2) and 118(1) r/w Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

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

24.10.2025 at 4:00 p.m., the applicant along with the remaining accused assaulted the defacto complainant with helmet and a nail and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. John Sebastian Ralph V., the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri. K.A.Noushad, 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 present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicants with the alleged crime; hence, they are entitled to bail. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor, on the other hand, submitted that the alleged incident occurred as part of the applicants'