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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.993/2025 of Vandanmedu Police Station, Idukki District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 316 (4) and 318(4)

of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant, being an employee of the Kadanthottu Finance Private Limited, Anakkara Branch, where the defacto complainant is the Director, during the period from 16.08.2022 to 29.08.2025, with the intention of making unlawful gain for himself and causing corresponding wrongful loss to the defacto complainant, on several occasions, pledged spurious and fake gold ornaments in different names in the said institution. It is alleged that, by the aforesaid acts, the accused dishonestly misappropriated the funds of the company, thereby committing criminal breach of trust and cheating, and caused a total loss of about Rs.82,00,000/- (Rupees Eighty Two lakhs only) to the said institution and thereby committed the aforesaid offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Sijo Pathaparambil Joseph, the learned c