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 in Crime No.73/2025 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Thrissur District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section 319 (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act , 2000.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant has created a fake website under the pretext of facilitating bookings for a rest house near the Guruvayur Temple, Thrissur, and upon clicking the said link, the users were redirected to a WhatsApp number +91 9109879017 through which the victims were subjected to online scam and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Sarath Babu Kottakkal, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. M.C. Ashi, 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