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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 sole accused in Crime No.17/2026 of Kumily Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section 376 (1) of the Indian Penal Code , 1860 and Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant, with the intention and knowledge of subjecting the defacto complainant to sexual intercourse on the false promise of marriage, on 01.01.2024 at about 04:00 p.m., brought the defacto complainant to a house situated near the beach in Ernakulam District by assuring her of marriage and subjected her to sexual intercourse. It is further alleged that on another day after 04.04.2025, the applicant again subjected the defacto complainant to sexual intercourse at a lodge in Ernakulam on the promise of marriage, thereby causing injury to her dignity and mental agony and thereby committed the aforesaid offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Sachin Ramesh, the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt. Sreeja V., the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused