O R D E R

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 sole accused in Occurrence Report No.105/2025 of Nooranad Excise Range Office, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 13 read with 63 and 55(i) of the Kerala Abkari Act 1 of 1077.

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

07:10 a.m. on 01/10/2025 while the respondent and his men were on patrol duty, they got a reliable information that the applicant is selling Indian Made Foreign Liquor at his house; that when they reached the residence of the applicant and on search they found that the applicant is selling the liquor in the cattle shed on the eastern side of his house; that they seized about 3.900 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor which was intended for sale; that on seeing the respondent, the applicant ran away from the place and hence they could not arrest the applicant and thus the applicant committed the off