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2026 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 5894

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
DR. KAUSER EDAPPAGATH, J
JAMES K.P – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: SRI.RAPHAEL THEKKAN, SRI.T.SAJI RAPHEL, SRI.ABESH ALOSIOUS
For the Respondents: SRI.M.C. ASHI, SR. PP

ORDER

This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ) seeking regular bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 to 10 in Crime No.912/2025 of Vellikulangara Police Station, Thrissur District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (2), 191(2), 332(c), 132, 324(5) and 351 read with Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 3 (1) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused persons, on 08.12.2025 at about 9:00 a.m., due to the fact that a person died due to the attack of the elephant in the locality entered into the Chaippankuzhy Forest Office and destroyed the wireless set, LED etc., caused destruction and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Raphael Thekkan, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant

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