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

2. The applicant is the accused No.1 in Crime No.232/2024 of Nooranadu Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 341 , 365, 342, 323, 395, 201 and 506(ii) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on account of previous enmity towards CW2 and others, accused Nos.1 to 9 formed an unlawful assembly with the knowledge that they were the members of the assembly, armed with deadly weapons such as sword, sickle etc., with their common object to abduct CW2 and to cause hurt to him on 18.02.2024 at 10.30 p.m, wrongfully restrained the motorcycle ridden by CW2 by using the car bearing registration No.KL-31P-2367 at Erumakuzhy in Palamel village. It is alleged that the applicant intimidated CW2 by pressing the sword on his neck and abducted him in a car. Accused Nos.3 and 4 committed robbery of the motorcycle of CW2. It is also alleged that the applicant and accused Nos.5, 6 and 7 fisted CW2 and brought him to a house wherein accused No.10 comm