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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, 2, 3 and 5 in Crime No.4/2026 of Nedumkandam Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (2), 191(1), 191(2), 190, 118(1), 115(2), 296(b), 126(2), 74 and 324(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that due to animosity towards the defacto complainant, the applicants and other accused formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, on 31.12.2025 at about 09:30 pm., at the sit out in front of the house of Salu bearing No. XX/355 of Nedumkandam Grama Panchayat, the accused No.1 assaulted Jomon, the son of the defacto complainant by hitting him on the face with an iron weapon. Accused Nos. 2, 3, and 5 also joined in the assault by kicking him, holding his head and throwing him to the ground. When the defacto complainant intervened, the accused No.1 kicked her on the right thigh, causing her to fall down and thereafter beat her with a wooden plank, causing injurie