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 sole accused in Crime No.1264/2025 of Ayiroor Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 74 , 87 and 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 , and Section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the defacto complainant/victim and Sona, the wife of the applicant are friends and they were studying in the same college. The applicant and Sona is having a child, however they were not in good terms. The defacto complainant joined the health club of the applicant during October 2023. The applicant told his relatives that he is going to marry the defacto complainant and thus the relationship between the applicant and his wife Sona became worse. On 20.03.2024, the applicant came to the college where the defacto complainant was studying and took her in a bike to a house near Kadakkal Government hospital and committed sexual intercourse. The relatives of the defacto complainant had given a woman missing case before Ayiroor Po