ORDER

This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-

arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 and 2 in Crime No.75/2025 of Kayamkulam Excise Range Office, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 55 (i), 55D and 58 of theKerala Abkari Act.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 03.09.2025 when the Excise party were conducting patrolling, they got a reliable information that the applicants are conducting sale of IMFL at their residence. Upon the said information, the excise party had proceeded to the house of the applicants and seized 0.185 litres of illicit liqour from the house and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Manu Harshakumar, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri. K.A.Noushad, 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 above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicants with the alleged crime; hence, they are entitled to get bail. The