ORDER

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.1299/2025 of Badagara Police Station, Kozhikode District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 318(4) r/w Section

3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused, who are stated to be directors of an institution, received a total sum of ₹9,00,000 (Rupees Nine Lakhs only) from the defacto complainant on 06.07.2024 and 30.07.2024, promising to secure admission for her daughter to a nursing course at Medasc Edu Solutions. It is alleged that the accused thereafter failed to secure the admission and did not return the money and thereby committed the alleged offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Shahim Bin Aziz, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.M.C. Ashi, the learned 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 connect the applicant with