ORDER

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.1316/2025 of Pandalam Police Station, Pathanamthitta District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 118(1), 110 and 333 read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 4.9.2025 at about 11.30 pm, the applicant along with the other accused persons, total four in numbers, had trespassed into the residential house of the defacto complainant, hurled obscene words, the applicant beat the defacto complainant and his brother using stick, while accused Nos. 2 to 4 caused hurt to the siblings of the defacto complainant and to one Sreeja, the niece of the defacto complainant.

4. I have heard Sri. Balamurali K.P., the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt. Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The