ORDER

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 accused in Crime No.54/2025 of Kodakara Police Station, Thrissur District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 406 and 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused induced the defacto complainant to part with Rs.6,00,000/- promising that they would provide a Visa to her, cheated her without providing Visa or returning the amount and thereby committed the offence.

4. I have heard Sri.Jithin Babu A., the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior 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 above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime;

hence, he is entitled to bail. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor, on the other hand, submitted that the alleged incident occurred as part of the applicant's intentional criminal acts, and