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.2 and 3 in Crime No.41/2026 of Kannanalloor Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126 (2), 296(b), 115(2), 118(1) and 118(2) r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 18.01.2026 at 00.15 hours, the accused No.1 had restrained the injured Sunilraj by pulling his shirt and verbally abused him. Then, the applicant No.1 had struck the head of the father of the complainant's friend causing fracture of skull and internal bleeding. The applicant No.2 had struck the head of the defacto complainant with a stone causing bleeding. The applicant No.1 had struck the friend of the defacto complainant with a piece of wood and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Sumesh Chakkadath Subramanian C.S., the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt.Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicants are innocent