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.1544/2025 of Ambalappuzha Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 118(1), 126(2) and 296(b) read with Section 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 04.05.2025 at around 9:00 p.m., near to the Railway gate at Thakazhi, the accused persons wrongfully restrained the defacto complainant, stabbed him with a knife, when his friends-Nandu Vijay and Pranav Pramod intervened, they attacked them also with the same knife and sustained injuries and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Sudheer K.C., the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.Sreeja V., 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 present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime; hence, he is entitled to bail. The lea