-Wife, filed application to the effect that she had received an amount of Rs. five lac through cheque as her maintenance allowance and rest of the claim would be settled privately-

  Citation Name: 2020 YLR 188

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PERVEZ ALI VS Mst. RAZIA BEGUM

S.5, Sched.---dower and maintenance allowance, recovery of---Wife filed suit for recovery of dower and maintenance allowance---Wife, filed application to the effect that she had received an amount of Rs. five lac through cheque as her maintenance allowance and rest of the claim would be settled privately---Joint statement of both the parties was recorded and suit was disposed of on 27.9.2014---Wife on 15.5.2015, filed suit for recovery of dower as husband never turned up for settlement---Said suit was partially decreed---Validity---Record revealed that the wife had sought recovery of possession of agricultural property along with a constructed house, which, as per her contention, were given to her in lieu of her dower---Husband-defendant in his written statement had admitted that he had given his share from his ancestral property to the wife along with constructed house---Factum of deed dated 16.3.1985, on the basis of which dower had been paid, was denied---Petitioner/husband had also asserted that the house was jointly owned by him with brothers and the amount to the extent of her share in the house was paid to her---Petitioner in his written statement, though, had admitted the fixation of dower, but had taken the stance that the respondent-wife to whom the property was transferred, in lieu of dower, had alienated it to another person---Respondent/wife while appearing as witness had reiterated the factum of fixation of dower and non-payment thereof, which portion of the statement remained un-rebutted, which would be considered to have been admitted---Similarly, the respondent-wife had received the amount of share in the house---Evidently, no property was ever mutated in the name of the respondent-wife, as such, she could never transfer it to other person---Petitioner/husband could not produce any evidence regarding payment of share in the house to the respondent-wife---Petitioner/ husband had failed to prove that any property either constructed or otherwise was given to the respondent-wife---Constitutional petition being without any merit was dismissed in limine.