The court grants bail based on no significant evidence linking the accused to the alleged crimes and prior bail granted to the prime accused.

ORDER

This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking regular bail.

2. The applicant is the accused No. 4 in Crime No.9/2025 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Thrissur District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 318 (4) read with Section 3 (5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act , 2000.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused with an intention to cheat the defacto complainant, misrepresented them as CBI officials and they made the defacto complainant believe that he was virtually arrested during the period from 01-10-2025 to 10-10-2025 and as per the direction of the accused, the defacto complainant had sent a total amount of Rs. 1,73,00,000/- to the accounts of the accused through RTGS. Thus, the applicant is alleged to have committed the aforesaid offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Vinod Kumar P.R., the learned counsel for the applicant and Smt. Sreeja V., 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 present case. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime; hence, he is entitled to bail. On the other hand, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor submitted that the alleged incident occurred as a part of the intentional criminal acts of the applicant, and he is not entitled to bail at this stage.

6. The applicant was remanded to judicial custody on

19.01.2026. The investigation is almost over. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the applicant that the accused No.1, who is the prime accused was already granted bail by the Magistrate Court. The applicant does not have any criminal antecedents. For these reasons, I do not find any reason to hold that the continued detention of the applicant is required for any purpose. Hence, the applicant is entitled to be released on bail.

In the result, the application is allowed on the following conditions: -

(i) The applicant shall be released on bail on executing a bond for Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh only) with two solvent sureties for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the jurisdictional Magistrate/Court.

(ii) The applicant shall fully co-operate with the investigation.

(iii) The applicant shall appear before the investigating officer between 10.00 a.m and 11.00 a.m. every Saturday until further orders. He shall also appear before the investigating officer as and when required.

(iv) The applicant shall not commit any offence of a like nature while on bail.

(v) The applicant shall not attempt to contact any of the prosecution witnesses, directly or through any other person, or in any other way try to tamper with the evidence or influence any witnesses or other persons related to the investigation.

(vi) The applicant shall not leave the State of Kerala without the permission of the trial Court. (vii) The application, if any, for deletion/modification of the bail conditions or cancellation of bail on the grounds of violating the bail conditions shall be filed at the jurisdictional court.

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