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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 apprehending arrest in Crime No.145/2025 of Thidanadu Police Station, Kottayam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Section 318 (4) r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section

66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is as follows: In furtherance of their fraudulent and dishonest intention to deceive the informant and make wrongful gain and corresponding wrongful loss to the informant, the accused persons befriended the informant through Telegram, a social media platform, by advertising that they need employees and thereafter, forwarded messages from the Telegram ID 'pooja_0001' and deceived him by promising to procure a job with handsome salary and induced him to transfer a total sum of Rs.21,02,295/- from his account maintained at SBI, Bharananganam branch into various accounts maintained by the accused and also some amounts were transferred from the accounts of the mother and friends of the informant. Thereafter, the accused persons c