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 No.3 in Crime No.1068/2025 of Kollengode Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 316(2) and

318(4) r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on

05.07.2024, accused No.1 called the defacto complainant over phone and promised to help him to pay the tax on 8 acres of land at Ayyajayinahundi in Mysore. Accused No.2 and the applicant together introduced themselves as Village Officer and Sub Registrar respectively, convinced the defacto complainant and received an amount of 18,25,000/- from the defacto complainant to the account of accused No.1 through bank transfer. After that, they did not pay land tax nor returned the money, and thereby cheated the defacto complainant. Thus, the applicant committed the above-mentioned offences.

4. I have heard Sri.K.R. Vinod, 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 appli