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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 applicants are the accused Nos.1 and

3 in Crime No.1381/2025 of Thaliparamba Police Station, Kannur District. The offence alleged is punishable under Section 318 (4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 23.05.2022, the accused together in furtherance of their common intention of cheating, made the de facto complainant and the sister of his wife to believe that they are conducting a jewellery by name “Melora” at Chiravakku, Taliparamba and they are giving loan without interest on deposit of gold and received 162.53 grams of gold from the de facto complainant and 260.18 grams of gold from his wife’s sister and given cash of Rs.6,36,000/- to the de facto complainant and Rs.9,92,000/- to his wife’s sister respectively. When they approached the accused to take back the gold with money on maturity of the loan, they refused to give the gold. Thereby, the accused had committed the above offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Jibu P Thomas, the learned counsel for the applicants and Smt. Sreeja.V