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 in Crime No.61/2026 of Mulanthuruthy Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 126(2), 118(1) and 110 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is as follows: The defacto complainant along with his friends used to consume alcohol in the courtyard of the residential building owned by Mr. Thomas Mani. The applicant is residing there as a tenant. On 13.01.2026 at about 2 pm, being unhappy with the consumption of alcohol by the defacto complainant and his friends, the applicant, with intention to inflict bodily injury and with knowledge that death would have caused, assaulted the defacto complainant using the blunt portion of a knife causing him injuries on his head and left shoulder and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Nidhin Raj Vettikkadan, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. K.A. Noushad, the learned Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the a