S. 5, Sched, & S.18.---Maintenance for minor and wife---Appearance through agent before Family Court---Effect--Concealment of source of income by husband---

 Citation Name:2020 PLD 343

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SAIF ULLAH BAJWA VS Mst. SAJIDA MANZOOR

S. 5, Sched, & S.18.---Maintenance for minor and wife---Appearance through agent before Family Court---Effect--Concealment of source of income by husband---Effect---suit for recovery of dower articles and maintenance of wife and minor was decreed concurrently---Contention of petitioner / husband, inter alia, was that impugned orders did not take into account that the husband/petitioner no longer had any source of income and furthermore that wife had not personally appeared before Family Court to substantiate her contentions---Validity---Evidence showed that husband/petitioner had concealed his sources of income and there existed contradictions on behalf of petitioner and his father, who was a witness, regarding his sources of income---Husband, if he fails to disclose his salary, or financial earnings, then adverse inference was to be drawn against him---No bar existed in wife being represented before Family Court by her authorized agent, therefore contention that wife did not appear before Family Court to substantiate her contentions was not tenable since her appearance was made through her authorized agent, who was her father---No illegality existed in impugned order---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.