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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 sole accused in Crime No.691/2025 of Kasaba Police Station, Kozhikode District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 6 (1), 5(l), 5(m) and 5(p) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act , 2012.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 12.10.2025 at about 2.30 p.m., the applicant committed penetrative sexual assault on the survivor-boy, while the survivor was standing on a plot in front of the survivor's house, taking him to a nearby plot, under the pretext of showing him a calf and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Titus Mani Vettom, 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. On the other hand, the learned Senior Public