O R D E R

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 sole accused in Crime No.1084/2025 of Ottapalam Police Station, Palakkad District. The offence alleged is punishable under Section

318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that, during the period from May, 2022 to May, 2025, while the de facto complainant was working in Dubai, the applicant, with the intent to cheat the de facto complainant, concealed his marriage and convinced the de facto complainant by promising to believe that he would develop business and return the money and also given promise to marry, obtained Rs.4 crores from the de facto complainant’s account through account transactions and debit card withdrawals on several times. Thereby the applicant cheated the de facto complainant. Thus, the applicant has committed the above mentioned offences.

4. I have heard Sri. P.Vijaya Bhanu, the learned senior 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 th