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.2764/2025 of Kottarakkara Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189(2), 191(2), 191(3), 118(1), 110 and 190 of the BNS, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on

7.12.2025, at 9 pm, the applicant along with the remaining accused formed an unlawful assembly with common intention to cause grievous hurt to the defacto complainant on account of previous enmity and in furtherance of the said intention, they attacked the defacto complainant with deadly weapons and inflicted grievous injuries. It is alleged that the applicant and the accused beat the defacto complainant with iron rods and caused injuries on his right elbow. When the defacto complainant fell down, accused Nos. 6 and 7 stamped and manhandled him. It is further alleged that the applicant beat the defacto complainant's friend Hussain above his left ear with a punching bangle and the accused Nos. 4 and 5 fisted him on his face and nose and thereby committed the offences.

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