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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.2 in Crime No.2/2026 of Kanakakkunnu Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126 (2), 115(2), 118(1) and 118 (2) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that due to a misunderstanding that the defacto complainant had made an improper gesture towards the accused, they with the common intention of causing bodily hurt to him, on 01.01.2026 at 12.30 a.m., intercepted both the defacto complainant and his friend while they were returning home after New Year celebrations. Accused persons arrived in a car bearing Registration No.KL-29-X-3734 and wrongfully restrained the defacto complainant and his friend by blocking the motorcycle of them at Kochide Jetty Bridge Junction on the Pullukulangara-Kochide Jetty Road, Kandalloor Village. Accused No.1 caught hold of the collar of the defacto complainant and struck him on the face and nose with a bunch of keys. Thereafter, applicant punched him on his back,