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This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking regular bail.

2. The applicant is the sole accused in Crime No.950/2024 of Kozhinjampara Police Station, Palakkad District. The offence alleged is punishable under Section 103 (1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 10.11.2024, at about 2.30 p.m., the applicant, along with Martin Antony Swamy, the deceased in this case, after consuming alcohol, went to a public pond named “Potteri” at Kozhippara of Vatakarappathy Village for taking bath and when the applicant went to take bath, the deceased consumed the balance liquor kept by the applicant by the side of the above pond, and aggrieved by that, the applicant, with the intention to commit murder of the deceased, kicked him into that pond and thus murdered him.

4. I have heard Sri.Godwin Joseph, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.C.K.Suresh, the learned Special 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 present case. The counsel f