ORDER This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-

arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.1 and 3 in Crime No.691/2025 of Kaipamangalam Police Station, Thrissur District. The 3^rd respondent is the defacto complainant. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 406 and 420 of IPC .

3. The applicant No.1 is a teacher and the applicant No.3 is the Manager of the K.A.M.U.P.School, Kaipamangalam. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicants induced the 3^rd respondent/defacto complainant by publishing an advertisement in a newspaper inviting applications for the post of teacher, interviewed her, demanded a sum of `10 lakhs promising her appointment, and after receiving the said amount on 6.11.2023, engaged her as a teacher in the school for three months without any sanctioned vacancy. Thereafter, she was allegedly dismissed from service and the amount was not repaid.

4. I have heard Sri.Ashik K.Mohamed Ali, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that