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2017 (2) TMI 1284 - PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURTTreatment to unexplained money as the Stridhan - Held that:- The proposition of law enunciated in Pratibha Rani’s Vs. Suraj Kumar and another, (1985 (3) TMI 60 - SUPREME Court) relied upon by the learned counsel for the appellant is unexceptionable. It was held by the Apex Court that a Hindu married woman is the absolute owner of her Stridhan property and can deal with it in any manner she likes. She may spend the whole of it or give it away at her own pleasure by gift or will without any reference to her husband. Ordinarily, the husband has no right or interest in it with the sole exception that in terms of extreme distress as in famine, illness or the like, the husband can utilise it but he is morally bound to restore it or its value when he is able to do so. This right is purely personal to the husband. The property so received by him in marriage cannot be proceeded against even in execution of a decree for debt. However, in the present case, the appellant was unable to substantiate that the amount which was treated to be unexplained money was the Stridhan of the appellant’s wife. In view of the above, once the additions have been held to be sustained, no substantial question of law arises.
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