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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.1467/2025 of Nedumbassery Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 64 (1)(2)(m), 69, 305, 126(2) and 115(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Sections 66E and 67A of the Information Technology Act , 2000.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant and the de facto complainant developed their acquaintance through a dating app. Thereafter, the applicant invited her, who belongs to West Bengal, to Kerala. He promised to marry her. On the strength of the promise of marriage, on 22.05.2025 she was subjected to rape at the apartment situated opposite to the Federal Bank, Head Office, Aluva. Thereafter, from 23.05.2025 till 26.05.2025, she was administered with alcohol forcefully and subjected to sexual intercourse against her will at a hotel in Varkala. Further, from 06.06.2025 till 09.06.2025, she was subjected to rape against her will in a hotel at Bangalore. She was again subjected to rape from 04.08.2025 till 15.09.2025 at an