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.2 in Crime No.400/2025 of Kazhakkoottam Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 409 , 420 and 120B of the IPC .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the applicant along with the accused No.1 had promised to provide 33.33% of shares and ₹2,00,000/- as consultancy fees every month to the defacto complainant, thereafter failed to abide by the said promise, committed criminal breach of trust and cheating and thereby committed the offences.

4. I have heard Sri. K.P. Sujesh Kumar, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. K.A. Noushad, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the above crime. The counsel further submitted that no materials are on record to connect the applicant with the alleged crime; hence, he is entitled to bail. The learned Senior Public Prosecutor, on the other hand, submitted that the all