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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.1101/2025 of Santhanpara Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 118(1) and 324(4) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘ BNS ’).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that, due to previous enmity towards the defacto complainant’s grandson, the applicant and other accused abused him using obscene language. When the defacto complainant and his grandson questioned the same, the accused abused both of them. It is further alleged that on 09.12.2025 at about 4 p.m. on the road on the Perumal side near the canal frontage at Pethotti Kara in Santhampara village, the applicant and accused Nos.2 and 3, acting in furtherance of their common intention, abused the defacto complainant and his grandson and the applicant allegedly cut the left hand of the defacto complainant with a penknife, accused No.2 hit the defacto complainant on the head with a stone causing injuries, accused No.1 assaulted the grandson b