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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 applicant is the accused No.1 in Crime No.1211/2025 of Kunnathunad Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section s 296 (b), 110, 118(1), 115(2), 333 and 351(3) r/w Section

3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that out of the dispute with respect to the house occupied by the defacto complainant, on 13.10.2025 at about 05.00 p.m., the accused trespassed into the sit-out of the house occupied by the defacto complainant. The applicant assaulted and inflicted injuries on the head of the daughter of the defacto complainant with a billhook. When the defacto complainant tried to prevent the same, she was also assaulted with back side of billhook and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. P.Vijayabhanu, the learned senior counsel, as instructed by Sri.Akhil Faisal, the learned counsel for the applicant, Smt.S.Sujini, the learned counsel for additional respondent No.2 and Sri.K.A.Noushad, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the