ORDER

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.1 and 2 in Crime No.897/2025 of Alappuzha Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296(b), 115(2), 118(1) and 126(2) read with Section 3 (5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 ( BNS ).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that due to the previous animosity of applicant No.1 towards the defacto complainant, with common intention to cause hurt to him, along with applicant No.2 on 06.07.2025 at 8 p.m. approached the defacto complainant while he was standing in a petty shop near to CPM party office at Pulayanvazhi junction. Applicant No.2 took him to the passage near to the shop and applicant No.1 hurled abusive words against him and beat on his back and chest and also beat on the back of right ear with the handle of a steel knife. When he fell down, applicant No.1 stamped on his back and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Shaji Thankappan, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the