ORDER

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

2. The applicant is the accused No.4 in Crime No.291/2025 of Town East Police Station, Thrissur District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant had dishonestly and fraudulently obtained an amount of ₹42,00,000/- from the defacto complainant and his wife with a false promise to provide 12.5% interest and to return the amount on maturity of the deposit and thereafter failed to return the amount or pay any interest and thereby cheated the defacto complainant.

4. I have heard Sri. Paul Paulson T., 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 present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime; hence, she is entitled to bail. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor has pointed o