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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.2 in Crime No.49/2026 of Thenmala Police Station, Kollam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 118(1) and 110 read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the defacto complainant owed money to the applicant and following the failure of the defacto complainant to pay the money, the accused persons had assaulted him at 22 hours on 13.01.2026. Firstly, the accused persons had deflated the tyres of the pickup van of the defacto complainant. Thereafter, the accused No.1 had struck the head of the defacto complainant with a stone. When the defacto complainant attempted to run away, accused No.1 pursued him and again struck his head with a stone. There was a large wound on the head which required 12 stitches to repair the same and thereby committed the offences.

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

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