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.8/2024 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act , 2000.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant with intention to obtain wrongful gain and to cause wrongful loss to the friend of the defacto complainant, made him believe that if he joins the online trading business, he would get profit and during the period from 22.12.2023 to 27.2.2024, obtained a total sum of ₹50,61,000/- by way of six transactions through the bank account of the friend of the defacto complainant maintained in Federal Bank, Chathannoor Branch. Thereafter, the applicant neither gave profit nor returned the money to the friend of the defacto complainant and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Hashmi V.Z., 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