ORDER

This application is filed underSection 482of theBharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023(for short, BNSS ), seeking pre- arrest bail.

2. The applicant is the accused in Crime No.20/2026 of Erattupettah Police Station, Kottayam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 69 and 88 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, the BNS ).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant befriended the defacto complainant through Facebook, by deceitful means made her a false promise of marriage and on 18.10.2025 at 11 am, he induced her to come to the Capital Inn restaurant at Erattupetta and had sexual intercourse with her on that day and on other occasions. The defacto complainant became pregnant and when she informed the matter to the applicant he was reluctant to marry her and compelled her to undergo medical termination of pregnancy on 14.11.2025 and cheated her by not marrying her.

4. I have heard Smt. Namita Philson, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. K.A. Noushad, 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 implic