IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.10253 of 2011 1. SALIM DEWAN, Son of Late Habib Dewan. 2. Mokhtar Dewan, Son of Salim Dewan. 3. Nasarullah Dewan @ Nasurallah, Son of Salim Dewan. 4. Aslam Dewan, @ Aslam , Son of late Id. Mohammad Dewan. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 19.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under Sections 406 & 420 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation against the petitioners is that the marriage of the daughter of the complainant was settled with petitioner no.3. The engagement was performed in which about Rs.15,000/- was paid in cash but subsequently Rs. 25,000/- was demanded as a result of which the marriage could not be finalized . It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that there is nothing against the petitioners to suggest that the marriage was actually fixed and now the complainant’s daughter has been married to some other place. 2 Let the petitioner deposit Rs. 15,000/- before the learned court below which will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, 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 Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran, in connection with complaint Case No. 1125-C/2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Nitesh (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)