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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.768/2025 of Murikkassery Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section s 406 , 420, 465 and 468 read with Section 34 IPC .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant along with other accused persons with an intention to cheat the defacto complainant and to make unlawful gain, promised job for the defacto complainant and his friends at South Korea, and obtained and amount of Rs.2,50,000/- from the defacto complainant and his friends. But the accused persons not provided the job as promised nor returned the amount obtained and issued fake offer letter and flight tickets and thereby committed the aforementioned offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Anto Thomas Palatty, the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt. Sreeja V., 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 submitt