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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.3 in Crime No.57/2026 of Kattakada Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (2), 191(2), 296(b), 115(2), 118(1), 118(2) and 324(4)

read with Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is as follows: On

20.01.2026, at around 10:00 p.m., the accused persons formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and in prosecution of their common object, called the de-facto complainant and his friends to a place near S.B.I situated at Thoongampara, and when they reached there, a verbal altercation occurred between the de-facto complainant and the applicant. At that time, the accused No.4 uttered obscene words against the de-facto complainant and caught hold of his shirt, and accused No.1 by using a spatula had beaten the de-facto complainant on his left hand, causing fracture to his left wrist. When accused No.1 swung the spatula, it hit on the head of the de-facto complainant’s friend Ratheesh causing injuries to