ORDER

Petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail under section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 .

2. Petitioner is the accused in Crime No.428 of 2025 of Kalamassery Police Station registered alleging offences punishable under sections 75(1)(i), 69, 64(2)(m), 79, 351(1) and section 89 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023 (‘BNS’ for short).

3. According to the defacto complainant, on 29^th April, 2023, she, a divorcee, registered her name on Shaadi.com, a matrimonial site. The accused accepted her request and started contacting her through Facebook Messenger and phone and soon they became close to each other. Since the accused is also a divorced man with two children, he visited her house in May 2023 and expressed his desire to marry her and requested for a six-month period, claiming that his business was in its initial stages. On 6^th June, 2023, the accused took her to his flat and from that date until November 25, 2024, he sexually assaulted her on several occasions. Later, he defamed her by spreading false information about her character. When she became pregnant, he compelled her to terminate the pregnancy and threatened to publish her nude videos and photographs on so