IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11490 of 2011 YADU NANDAN MAHTO & ANR. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 29.04.2011. Heard the learned senior counsels for the petitioners, informant and counsel for the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 498(A), 304(B), 201, 406, 120(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation is of demand of dowry and torture. The marriage was performed in 2009. It appears that after the marriage, the victim went to her husband’s place of working in Andhra Pradesh on 11.08.2010 and on 27.09.2010 the victim went missing. Thereafter her clothes and other articles were recovered near a bridge but her dead body could not be recovered. On 28.10.2010 the husband reported the matter to the police leading to registration of Ashwapuram Khaman P.S.Case No.71 of 2011. The F.I.R. was registered and the investigation is 2 going on. Till date the dead body has not been recovered. It is submitted by senior counsel for the petitioners that the present F.I.R. is not maintainable in this State since the occurrence took place in Andhara Pradesh and substantive case has been lodged in Andhra Pradesh but the said contentions of the petitioners can not be decided in the present proceeding. It is further submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners can not be held responsible for the act of victim. Moreover, the bonafide is apparent from the fact that immediately the police was informed about disappearance of the victim. Learned senior counsel appearing for the informant submits that Rs. 13,00,000/- was paid through the drafts prior to the marriage which reflects that on fulfillment of demand of dowry the marriage was performed. The drafts appear to have been made in favour of the husband. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners submits that there is nothing on record that after marriage any payments have 3 been made. Considering the aforesaid submissions, the fact that the petitioners are parents, efforts were made to locate the victim and the bonafide of accused persons which gets reflected that the case was lodged by the petitioners side immediately after the disappearance of the victim, let the petitioners, Yadu Nandan Mahto and Bachhi Devi, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Khodawandpur P.S. Case No. 127 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Begusarai, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U. K. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)