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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 in Crime No.43/2026 of Nadapuram Police Station, Kozhikode District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section 75(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Sections 7 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 13.1.2026 at 11.30 am, the applicant with sexual intent, hugged the minor survivor from behind, pressed her breast while she was passing through the courtyard of the applicant after purchasing betel leaves from a shop near her house at Purameri and thereby committed the offences.