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.756/2025 of Kanakakunnu Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126(2), 296(b), 115(2) and 121(1) read with Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is as follows:

The defacto complainant is the conductor of the KSRTC bus bearing No. RNC 991 attached to Haripad KSRTC depot. On 26.12.2025 at 5.45 pm, at Vadikappally junction in Pullukulangara-Karthikappally public road in ward No.1 of Muthukulam Panchayat, the applicant and the accused No.2 wrongfully restrained the KSRTC bus by stopping their Mahindra jeep bearing registration No. KRO 7270 across the said bus, as they were not given a way to overtake. The accused hurled obscene words towards the driver of the said bus and when the defacto complainant alighted from the bus to enquire the matter, they abused him also and grabbed and pushed him away, causing him to fall on the jeep. As a result, his uniform got damaged, sustained injuries to his right