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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 the sole accused in Crime No.339/2026 of Pala Police Station, Kottayam District. The offence alleged is punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the informant is a widow and she has a daughter, who was desirous of obtaining an employment. The applicant got acquainted with the sister of the informant and the informant also got acquainted with the applicant. Thereafter, the applicant deceived the informant by making her believe that he had procured job to several peoples and if cash is given to him, he would procure a job for the daughter of the informant in the Coconut Development Board. Thereafter, with dishonest and fraudulent intention of making wrongful gain for himself and corresponding wrongful loss to the informant, the applicant pr