ORDER

This application is filed underSection 482of theBharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre- arrest bail.

2. The applicant is the accused No.1 in Crime No.1725/2025 of Kottiyam Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126(2), 296(b), 115(2), 118(1) and 110 read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ), 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 13.10.2025 at about 7:30 p.m., the applicant, in concert with the co-accused, wrongfully restrained the complainant, subjected him to verbal abuse, and the applicant assaulted him with fists, thereby causing him to fall. It is further alleged that the accused No.2 thereafter assaulted and inflicted a stab injury on the complainant’s thigh with a knife allegedly handed over by the accused No.3 and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Kiran Lal M., the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the above crime. The counsel further submitted that no m