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This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos. 1 and 2 in Crime No.1022/2025 of Karukachal Police Station, Kottayam. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 3 18 (4) and 3(5)

of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNS’).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that applicants herein with an intent to cheat the defacto complainant promised her to procure a job as senior care worker in Canada and received an amount of Rs.4,00,000/- (Rupees Four Lakhs only) on 21.09.2023 and another amount of Rs.4,00,000/- (Rupees Four Lakhs only) on 21.12.2024, totaling Rs.8,00,000/- (Rupees Eight Lakhs only). It was further alleged that the applicants even after the receipt of the amount did not provide the defacto complainant a job as promised in Canada and therefore she approached the respondent on 13.08.2025 and submitted a complaint alleging the commission of the offences under Section 3 18 (4) and 3(5) of the BNS.

4. I have heard Sri.K.R.Sunil, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the c