ORDER

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 sole accused in Crime No.50/2025 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section s 316 (2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ), 2023 and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant, with the intention to cheat the de facto complainant and to fraudulently obtain money, contacted him through social media by falsely promising that he could earn huge profits through online trading. Believing such representations, the de facto complainant, during the period from 08.07.2025 to 02.09.2025, transferred a total amount of ₹42,35,925/- (Rupees Forty Two Lakh Thirty Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty Five only), in several instalments, to various bank accounts as directed by the applicant. Thereafter, the applicant neither paid the promised profits nor returned the amounts so transferred, thereby cheating the de facto complainant.

4. I have heard Sri. C.C. Anoop, the learned counsel for the ap