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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.2981/2025 of Kollam East Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section s 296 (b), 126(2) and 110 read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘ BNS ’).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the friend of the defacto complainant had questioned the conduct of the accused in making a quarrel after consuming liquor at Kollam V Park. Accused No.2 had pulled down the defacto complainant out of his car and the applicant had verbally abused the defacto complainant and brandished a dagger towards the neck of the defacto complainant, which was blocked by the defacto complainant, resulting in a stab injury on his left hand. Unless the defacto complainant had blocked the said stab, it would have resulted in an injury likely to cause his death.

4. I have heard Sri.Jithin S., the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor.

Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant s