ORDER

This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-

arrest bail.

2. The applicant is the accused in Crime No.1468/2025 of Punalur Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 281 , 125(a), 125(b) and 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘ BNS ’) and Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 07.10.2025 at 7.00 p.m., the applicant drove a pickup van bearing registration No. KL-46-K-3634 under the influence of liquor, in a manner likely to cause death of the passengers on the road and had hit an auto-rickshaw causing death of the driver of the auto-rickshaw and injuries to two passengers in the autorickshaw and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Prakash Mathew Panjikaran, 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 materials are on record to conn