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 p