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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.6 in Crime No.1186/2025 of Pulpally Police Station, Wayanad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 3(1), 25(1B)(a) and 35 of the Arms Act .

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

07.11.2025 at Parakkadavu in Padichira amsom under the South Wayanad Division, Chethalath Range, accused Nos.1 to 6, trespassed into the Karnataka forest with the intention to commit an offence and using an unlicensed country-made firearm and ammunition, shot and killed a Schedule I wild buffalo, butchered it, transported the meat and sold it and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Smt.Aswini Sankar R.S., the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime; hence, he is entitled to