ORDER

These applications are filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicant in B.A.No.648/2026 is the accused No.3 and the applicants in B.A.No.708/2026 are accused Nos. 2, 1, 6 and 5 respectively in Crime No.1343/2025 of Bekal Police Station, Kasargod District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (2), 191(2), 191(3), 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 110 and 351(2) read with Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 (for short, the BNS ). During investigation, the offence under Section 118 (2) of the also is added.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 23.12.2025 at about 10.30 pm at Periyattadukkam in Panayal Village, the applicants, on account of their political rivalry and in prosecution of their common object, formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and attacked the defacto complainant with dangerous weapons such as punch and a wooden log, inflicted injury on the left side of his eye and on his mouth and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Sukarnan and Sri. Rahul Sasi, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri. K.A. Noushad, the learned Se