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.1496/2025 of Nooranadu Police Station, Alappuzha District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 296 (b), 333, 118(1) and 118(2) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 23.09.2025 at 3.00 p.m., a dispute arose between the applicant and one of the colleagues of the defacto complainant named Arun Das, who is a native of Assam, at Esquire Bar situated at Charumood Junction in connection with cleaning of the table in the bar. The applicant used abusive language against the victim and struck him on the head with a beer bottle and then, the applicant left in a motorcycle belonging to accused No.2, an “unknown person” and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Balasubramanyan, 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 implicat