ORDER

This is an application filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (for short ' BNSS '), seeking anticipatory bail.

2. The petitioner is the 4thaccused in Crime No.1784/2025 of Kattappana Police Station, Idukki, registered alleging offences punishable under Sections 189(2), 189(4), 191(2), 191(3), 190, 296(b), 333, 118(1), 118(2), 115(2), 351(1) and 324(2) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

3. The prosecution case is that accused Nos. 1 to 15 formed themselves into an unlawful assembly, and in prosecution of thier common object they trespassed into the house of one Arun Chandran, the friend of the de facto complainant, and the 1^st accused struck on the head of Arun chandran with an iron rod and the other accused assaulted him using stick and by their hands and also committed mischief by smashing the window panes and damaging the back door of the house. Hence, the accused are alleged to have committed the aforesaid offences.

4. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Senior Public Prosecutor.

5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is totally innocent of the allegations leveled against him and he