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Dated this the 29^th day of January, 2026 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 in Crime No.689/2025 of Vidura Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 3 18 (4) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicants induced the de facto complainant to part with Rs.2 lakhs promising that they would provide job visa to him at Latvia and accordingly, the de facto complainant gave a total sum of Rs.1,90,000/- to the applicants and thereafter the applicants cheated him without providing visa or returned the amount.

4. I have heard Sri. Aamir Sohrab M.M., 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 the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicants with the alleged crime; hence, they are enti