IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7698 of 2008 SOMESHWAR NATH DIXIT @ MUNNA DIXIT & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ANR ----------- 2. 7.5.2008 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to correct the parentage of petitioner no.1 in accordance with what has been described in the complaint petition in course of the day. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners pray for anticipatory bail in a complaint case under Section 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioner no.1 is the son of petitioner no.2. The allegation in the complaint petition is that the marriage of the complainant’s daughter was fixed with petitioner no.1 and certain amounts of cash and other gifts were given at the time of engagement, but on failure to fulfil all the demands of dowry the marriage was cancelled and the gifts were not returned. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the complaint petition itself has been filed by suppressing certain vital facts. It is stated that the elder daughter of the complainant, Shova Devi, is already married to one of the sons of petitioner no.2 and when the complainant proposed the marriage of his another daughter with petitioner no.1, the same was refused as the petitioners did not want to re-marry twice in the same family and to put pressure upon the petitioners, a false case has been filed. It is stated that in this regard an 2 informatory petition was also filed before the S.D.M., Chakia in which the daughter-in-law of petitioner No.2, who is the daughter of the complainant, also joined. On a consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that petitioners (1) Someshwar Nath Dixit alias Sameshwar Nath Dixit alias Munna Dixit and (2) Hit Narayan Dixit in the event of their arrest or surrender in the court below within four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.7,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the S.D.J.M., Sadar, Motihari in connection with Complaint Case No.C-392 of 2007, Tr. No.3788 of 2007, subject to the other applicable conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) Cr.P.C. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.)