ISSUE:
Whether the husband has any rights over the ‘Streedhan’?
Whether a legal partnership is created between husband and wife due to the joint holding of the ‘Streedhan’ property?
Whether the refusal to return the ‘Streedhan’ property by a husband on demand from his wife would amount to Criminal Breach of Trust under Section 405?
RULE:
Section 14 of the Hindu succession act talks about property possessed by a Hindu female to be her absolute property, whether acquired before or after the commencement of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
Section 27 of the Hindu Marriage act states that the court may make such provisions in the decree as it deems just and proper with respect to any property presented, at or about the time of marriage, which may belong jointly to both the husband and the wife.