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.708/2025 of Kasaba Police Station, Palakkad District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 316 (2), 318(4) and 351(2) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023 (for short, BNS ).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that during the period from 04.12.2022 to 18.06.2025, the applicant, in concert with other accused persons, persuaded the de facto complainant to invest money in cryptocurrency trading on the assurance of a 9% return, thereby committing the offences of cheating and criminal breach of trust and occasioning a ₹

cumulative loss of 1,02,74,200/-. It is further alleged that, upon the complainant seeking the repayment of her money and the return of her gold ornaments, the accused issued threats, warning that she would be deprived of her assets and that she and her family would be falsely implicated in a criminal case. Accordingly, the applicant is alleged to have committed the aforesaid offences.

4. I have heard Sri.Navaneeth.N.Nath, the learned counse