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

2. The applicant is the sole accused in Crime No.546/2025 of Ernakulam Town North Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 376(2)(n) and 354B of the Indian Penal Code. 3. The prosecution case, in short, is that during 2019, while the defacto complainant was undergoing her degree course at Co-operative College Pilathra, the applicant was a senior student. They were in love. On 04.07.2022, the applicant has committed rape on the defacto complainant at Kenz Lodge near North Metro Station, Ernakulam and on 02.08.2022 also, he committed rape on the defacto complainant in Kenz lodge against her consent. In 2022 December also, he had committed sexual assault on the defacto complainant. During 2024, the applicant took the defacto complainant to Iftar hotel in Palarivattam and, at that time, against her consent, she was forcibly taken to men's toilet and engaged in rape. The applicant committed rape and sexual assault on the defacto complainant under the promise of marriage and thereby committed th