ORDER

This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking regular bail.

2. The applicant is the accused No.1 in Crime No.67/2026 of Thiruvalla Police Station, Pathanamthitta District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 115 (2), 329(3), 109, and 126(2) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

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

12.01.2026 at about 10.45 pm, on the public road at the front yard of the residential house of the defacto complainant situated at Kozhimala, the accused No.2 slapped the defacto complainant while the accused Nos. 3 and 4 had wrongfully restrained him, then the applicant had inflicted multiple stab injuries on the body of the defacto complainant using a knife causing fatal injuries to him, thereafter he was pushed into a canal with an intention to kill him and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. K.V. Anil Kumar, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. K.A. Noushad, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely impl