O R D E R

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.2 in Crime No.896/2025 of Ottapalam Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 118(2) and 110 r/w Section 3(5) of the BNS.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 06.10.2025 at

20.30 hours, accused Nos. 1 5, due to the enmity that a complaint was lodged for beating and injuring a person named Abdul Azeez against the friends of accused No.1, the accused wrongfully restrained the defacto complainant, accused No.1 stabbed him with a knife on the muscle of the left hand, accused No.2 hit him with a stone on the fingers of the left hand, accused No.3 kicked him on the chest and accused Nos. 4 and 5 beat him with their hands on the body and thereby the defacto complainant sustained injuries. If the defacto complainant had not blocked the stab by accused by using his hand, he would have sustained serious injury on the chest resulting in his death for which accused Nos.2 to 5 helped and instigated each other and thereby committed the offe