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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.2 in Crime No.794/2025 of Muttam Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 118(1) 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 accused, having the knowledge that their acts were likely to cause the death of the defacto complainant, on 29.11.2025 at about 11.00 p.m., while the defacto complainant was proceeding to his residence at Kattoli Bhagam, Thattarathatte Kara, Karimkunnam village, the applicant abused the defacto complainant using filthy language, when the defacto complainant questioned the same, accused No.1 inflicted a cut injury on the back of the head of the defacto complainant with a chopper and thereafter repeatedly attempted to assault him with the said weapon, but for the defacto complainant evading the attacks, it would have resulted in his death. The accused are alleged to have acted in furtherance of their common intention and to have render