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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.1067/2025 of Ayarkunnam Police Station, Kottayam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 64(2)(h) and 64(2)(m) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Sections 4(1) r/w 3(a), 6(1), 5(q) and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act , 2012.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant had repeatedly committed penetrative sexual assault on the victim during the period, between 01.05.2025 and 08.08.2025, at his house, “Chundayil” in Ayarkunnam Village and made her pregnant. The victim was residing in the house of the applicant during the above period and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Naveen Aniyan Mangalam, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.K.A.Noushad, 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 crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to con