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

2. The applicant is the accused No.3 in Crime No.532 of

2025 of Gandhinagar Police Station, Kottayam. The offences alleged are punishable under Section 3 08 (2) read with (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 ( BNS ).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the defacto complainant is staying near to the house of accused Nos.1 and 2 at Ammancheri and while so, the accused No.1 befriended with the defacto complainant and managed to obtain nude photographs of the defacto complainant and thereafter, with the help of accused Nos.2 and 3, threatened the defacto complainant that they would send his photographs to his relatives and in that way, the accused extorted a total sum of Rs.60,00,000/- and also obtained 61 sovereigns of gold ornaments and thereby committed the offence.

4. I have heard Sri.Ananthakrishnan A. Kartha, the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt.M.K.Pushpalatha, the learned Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the