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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 No.1 in Crime No.503/2025 of Town South Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 406 and 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused entertained an intention to deceive the de facto complainant and promised that there are certain money lying in the credit of the Reserve Bank of India in the name of one Mahesh and Devendran. If tax is paid, that amount will be released and a portion of the amount will be paid to the de facto complainant. Based on the representation and inducement of the accused during the period from 14.08.2019 to 30.05.2023, from the account of the wife of the de facto complainant Rs.28,10,000/- was transferred to the account of the accused No.1. The amount was not repaid so far. Thus, the applicant has committed the aforementioned offences.

4. I have heard Smt. Vijayakumari, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri. K.A.Noushad, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor and the lear