MUHAMMAD AMIN vs Mst. SURRAYA BEGUM AND 2 Other — 1970 PLD 475

Citation: 1970 PLD 475

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1968

Decision Date: 1968-10-25

Parties: MUHAMMAD AMIN vs Mst. SURRAYA BEGUM AND 2 Other

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1970 Lahore 475

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Muhammad Afzal Cheema Title: MUHAMMAD AMIN vs Mst. SURRAYA BEGUM AND 2 Other Case No.: Regular Second Appeal No. 876 of 1967 Date of Judgment:1968-10-25 Reported As: PLD 1970 Lahore 475 Result: E. JUDGMENT JUDGMENT Regular Second Appeals Nos. 876 and 878 of 1967, filed by Muhammad Amin against Mst. Surraya Begum, are connected matters, being directed against the same judgment and decree of the learned Additional District Judge,, Lahore, dated the 15th of September 1967, by which the trial Court's consolidated judgment decreeing the respondent's suit for dissolution of marriage and dismissing the appellant's suit for restitution of conjugal rights was upheld. 2. The brief facts of the case are that the parties were admittedly married on 18-4-1958 in Lahore when Rukhsati did not take place. It appears that after having in vain tried to prevail upon the parents of the respondent to send her with him the appellant at long last filed a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights on 24-4-1962. On receipt of notice, the respondent also brought a suit for dissolution of marriage on grounds of exercise of option of puberty, the appellant's associa-- petition with woman of ill-repute and on the basis of Khula'. 3. The parties went to trial on the following issues:- (1) Whether the suit for the dissolution of marriage is barred by Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961? O. P. P. (2) Whether the suit for the dissolution of marriage filed by Surraya…

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