ORDER

These applications are filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.2 and 3 in Crime No.1095/2025 of Mannarkkad Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 335 (A)(i), 340(2), 318(3), 316(2), 316(4), 316(5), 318(4), 336(3)

and 338 r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused No.1 who is the Secretary of the Mannarkkad Co- operative Urban Credit society, with the help of applicant Nos.2 and 3 who are the clerks of the said society committed fraud by showing that loans were given to the depositors of the society by forging the documents and through that, without returning the amount after the expiry of the deposits, committed breach of trust and cheated the society without producing the amount of Rs.1,73,40,343/- during the investigation. Thus the applicants committed the offences alleged.

4. I have heard Sri.S.Rajeev and Sri.T.K.Sandeep, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri.M.C. Ashi and Sri.K.A. Noushad, the learned Senior Public Prosecutors. Peruse