ORDER :

This Bail Application is filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023, for regular bail.

2. Petitioner is the 1^st accused in Crime No.396/2025 of Kattappana Police Station. The offences alleged are under Sections 406 and 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code , 1860.

3. The prosecution case is that the petitioner/1^st accused, along with the 2^nd accused, committed criminal breach of trust and cheating by obtaining an amount of Rs.2,80,00,000/- from the defacto complainant, offering job at New Zealand, and thereafter did not arrange the job as agreed, or return the amount collected from him. It is also alleged that the accused provided fake visa and documents to the defacto complainant and four others. Thus the petitioner is alleged to have committed the aforesaid offence.

4. The petitioner was arrested on 06.03.2025 and remanded to judicial custody. In the present petition, the petitioner would contend that he is totally innocent, and that he has been falsely implicated in this case.

5. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Public Prosecutor representing the State of Kerala.

6. The bail application is strongly opposed by th