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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 in Crime No.1113/2025 of Santhanpara Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 64 (2)(m) and 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Section 66E of the Information Technology Act .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that applicant with the intention and premeditation to sexually assault the de facto complainant, developed intimacy with her through mobile phone conversations, promised to marry her, and acting on that promise, on 28/02/2025, called her to a home stay at Santhanpara Village where at about 4 am, he allegedly forced her and committed sexual intercourse; thereafter, on 18/03/2025, 18/04/2025, 20/06/2025, 28/07/2025, 08/08/2025 and 26/10/2025, he subjected her to repeated penetrative sexual assault at the same home stay during the early morning hours, taking nude photographs of her on his mobile phone; and subsequently, on 18/11/2025, after midnight, he again committed penetrative sexual assault at Venkateswara Hotel, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu,