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.1 in Crime No.23/2026 of Aruvikkara Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 316(5) and 318(4) read with Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ), 2023.

3. According to the prosecution, the applicant who was the Secretary of the Rajeev Gandhi Residents Welfare Cooperative Society, Mundela, along with other accused committed criminal breach of trust, cheated the defacto complainant of the amounts which were deposited by him with the society, refused to return the same and thereby committed the offences alleged.

4. I have heard Sri.Vishak Johnson, 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 applicant submitted that the applicant has been falsely arrayed as an accused and that she has no involvement in the alleged crime.

6. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor opposed the bail application.

7. The applicant, along with other accused, is alle