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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 accused No.1 in Crime No.1382/2025 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 during the period from 02.03.2022 to 30.08.2022, the accused with the common intention of cheating, contacted the de facto complainant and represented 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 240.03 grams of gold and given an amount of Rs.9,44,000/-. Then on 05.04.2022 they had received 95 grams of gold and given cash of Rs.3,76,000/- and on 30.08.2022, received another 55.21 grams of gold and given loan of Rs.2,00,000/-. When the de facto complainant 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 offence.

4. I have heard Sri. Jibu P Thomas, the learned counsel for the applican