1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 94 of 2008 i) Mohamed Anis Ansari ii) Tahera Khatoon Mohamed iii) Mohamed Idris Ansari .. Applicants versus State of Maharashtra .. Respondent ... Mrs.Nimish Desai with Mrs.Naina Desai for the applicant. Mr.K.V.Saste APP for the State. CORAM : D.G.KARNIK, J DATED : 23rd January 2008 P.C.: 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned APP for the State. 2. The applicants seek pre-arrest bail in connection with the offence registered against them 2 with D.N. Nagar police station for the offence punishable u/s.498-A r/w section 34 of the IPC. The applicant nos.1 and 2 are father-in-law and mother-in-law of the complainant and applicant no.3 is her brother-in-law. The complainant filed the F.I.R dated 24th October 2007 alleging that after her marriage which was celebrated on 4th June 2006, the applicants started demanding dowry from her. Thereafter they demanded Rs.50,000/- and stated that only if the said Rs.50,000/- are paid she would be sent to Dubai to her husband who is in Dubai. Thereafter the complainant went to Dubai on the air ticket sent by her husband on 16th August 2007 and returned on 21st September 2007. According to the applicants, thereafter the complainant never returned to their home and started staying with the parents and a false complaint has been filed on 24th October 2007. 3. There is a considerable delay in lodging of an FIR. Though dowry was alleged to have been demanded soon after the marriage, no complaint was lodged for over a year about the same. Complaint has been lodged only after the complainant returned from Dubai and that too without even returning to the house of the applicants. 3 4. The applicants had previously applied for bail before the Sessions Judge. Interim bail was granted and the applicants were directed to attend the concerned police station. The applicants have thereafter been attending the concerned police station. Yet even their statement have not been recorded by the police. Taking an overall view of the matter, in my view, the applicants are entitled to a conditional bail. O R D E R . In the event of arrest of the applicants or any of them, each of them shall be released on bail on personal bond of Rs.30,000/- with one or two sureties each for the aggregate amount of Rs.30,000/- subject to the condition that each of the applicants shall attend the concerned police station on 28th January 2008 between 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. for recording of their statements. . It is further directed that the applicants shall not in any way make any inducement nor give any threat to any of the prosecution witnesses and attend the concerned police station if specifically summoned on any other date and shall co-operate with the investigation. 4 (D.G. KARNIK, J)