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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.2 in Crime No.157/2024 of Binanipuram Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections

406 and 420 read with Section 34 of the IPC.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant and accused Nos. 1, 3 and 4, in order to have wrongful gain to them and cause wrongful loss to 17 persons, promised them that accused No.1 has got license to recruit for employment in Norway and received an amount of Rs.76,11,500/- from 17 persons and out of the said amount, she has transferred Rs.64,21,850/- to the account of accused No.1 in Aluva Union Bank and balance is kept by the applicant. The accused has neither provided visa nor returned the amount to these persons and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.V.A.Hakeem, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.M.C.Ashi, 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 implicated in the above