Court granted pre-arrest bail due to lack of specific allegations against the applicants.

O R D E R

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.3, 4, 5 and 6 in Crime No.924/2025 of Mangalapuram Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 333, 296(b), 74, 118(1) and 110 r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 01.08.2025 at around 11.30 p.m., accused Nos.1 to 6 trespassed into the residence of the defacto complainant, situated in Andoorkonam Village, and assaulted the defacto complainant and his in-laws. It is alleged that the accused No.1 uttered abusive words against the defacto complainant and by using a chopper, hacked him towards his head and right hand, inflicting injuries. Thereafter, the accused No.2 beat the defacto complainant all over his person, using an iron rod. When the wife, father-in- law and mother-in-law of the defacto complainant intervened, the accused abused them, pushed them down, kicked them and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Navaneeth N. Nath, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C.Ashi, 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 learned Senior Public Prosecutor, on the other hand, submitted that the alleged incident occurred as a part of the intentional criminal acts of the applicants, and if they are released on bail at this stage, it will affect the course of the investigation.

6. I went through the FI Statement. The applicants have not been named in the FIR or in the FI Statement. No specific overt act has been alleged against them. The main allegations are against accused Nos. 1 and 2. They have used the weapon also. The applicants have no criminal antecedents. Considering the allegations made against the applicants, their custodial interrogation seems unnecessary. For these reasons, I find this to be an appropriate case to grant pre-arrest bail to the applicants.

In the result, the application is allowed on the following conditions:-

(i) The applicants shall be released on bail in the event of their arrest on executing a bond for Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh only) each with two solvent sureties for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the arresting officer/investigating officer, as the case may be.

(ii) The applicants shall fully cooperate with the investigation, including subjecting themselves to the deemed police custody for discovery, if any, as and when demanded.

(iii) The applicants shall appear before the investigating officer between 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m. every Saturday until further orders. They shall also appear before the investigating officer as and when required.

(iv) The applicants shall not commit any offence of a like nature while on bail.

(v) The applicants shall not attempt to contact any of the prosecution witnesses, directly or through any other person, or in any other way try to tamper with the evidence or influence any witnesses or other persons related to the investigation.

(vi) The applicants shall not leave the State of Kerala without the permission of the trial Court.

(vii) The application, if any, for deletion/modification of bail conditions or cancellation of bail on the grounds of violating the bail conditions shall be filed at the jurisdictional court.

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