*1* IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.3709/2009 Jeevan Malhari Dunage and another. ..Applicants -VERSUS- The State of Maharashtra. ..Respondent ............... Mr.V.V.Purwant, Advocate for the Applicants. Ms.P.P.Shinde, A.P.P., for the Respondent/State. ............... CORAM: A.P.DESHPANDE, J. Dated 17th August, 2009. PC:- 1 Apprehending arrest in Crime No.138/2009 registered with Sadar Bazar Police Station, Solapur for the offences punishable under Sections 363, 366-B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, the present application has been filed for anticipatory bail. The offence has been registered on the complaint filed by one Shakuntala. 2 According to the complaint, the present Applicants had approached the Complainant’s family with a proposal to marry their son by name Balu with Hemani. However, as Hemani was minor, her family was not ready and willing to accept the proposal. Thereafter, Hemani is missing from 09.06.2009 from the point of time she left the house at about 5:00 pm by informing that she was going to answer the call of nature. Ultimately, after all efforts failed to trace *2* the girl, a complaint was lodged giving rise to registration of the offence. The son of Applicants is also missing from the same day according to the prosecution and the said fact is not denied by the learned counsel for the Applicants. 3 According to the prosecution, the Applicants herein seem to be aware about their son and missing girl otherwise they would have lodged a report about missing of their son in the Police Station. No steps have been taken by the Applicants with a view to trace the son and this fact goes to indicate that the Applicants are aware of whereabouts of the missing girl. The girl is missing for a period of more than two months and the investigating agency believes that the Applicants know the whereabouts of the missing girl. 4 In that view of the matter I am of the view that custodial interrogation would facilitate to trace the missing girl. Hence, the present Application is rejected. (A.P. Deshpande, J)