, J.

1. The sole grouse of the petitioners in this petition under Sec.482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashment of First Information Report No.86 dated 30-10-1989 registered at Police Station, Machhiwara District Ludhiana, for offence under Sections.406, 498-A, 506 read with Sec.34 of the Indian Penal Code is that even if the entire allegations in the F. I. R. are taken to be true, the petitioners had not committed any offence in the territorial Jurisdiction of Police Station, Machhiwara.

2. Paras 4 and 5 of the F. I. R. , Annexure P/1 read as under :-

" (4) That on 13-9-1989 the applicant demanded the dowry articles from the accused Baljit Singh which was entrusted to him at the time of marriage as her istridhan of the applicant but the accused refused to give those dowry articles to the applicant and told the applicant that he had disposed of all those articles. The accused Baljit Singh also demanded Rs.1,50,000 from the applicant and he asked the applicant to bring this amount from the widow mother as the accused Baljit Singh has returned from U. S. A. In the meantime the father of the accused Baljit Singh, namely Sh. Kartar Singh Gill, his mother Smt. Jaswant