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 No.1 in Crime No.264/2025 of Excise Range Office, Ettumanoor, Kottayam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 55 (g), 8(1) and 8(2) of the Kerala Abkari Act .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant and the accused No. 2 manufactured arrack on the Western side of the shed situated in the North – Eastern part of the Northern courtyard of residential building No.IXI/511 belonged to applicant No. 1, at Ayamanam Village at 02.20 P.M, on 20-12-2025. The offence was detected by the Excise Enforcement and Anti- Narcotics Special Squad, Kottayam. The Excise party seized 35 litres of arrack, utensils kept for manufacturing arrack including a brass vessel having 70- litre capacity, a pot (Illichatty) and uruli round vessel having 15 litre capacity and cash worth Rs.180/-.

4. I have heard Smt.