JUDGMENT :

The wife filed a petition for recovery of gold and money allegedly entrusted to the husband at the time of marriage and thereafter. The husband also filed a petition for divorce on the ground of matrimonial cruelty. By the impugned common judgment, the Family Court dismissed both the petitions. The husband and wife challenge the respective adverse orders by preferring the above appeals. For the sake of convenience, the wife will hereinafter be referred to as the petitioner and the husband as the respondent.

3. The respondent denied all the above allegations and contended that the wife had only 15 sovereigns of gold ornaments. The allegation regarding receipt of money from her family members was also stoutly denied. According to him, he purchased the property at Elamakkara in 1991 by availing a loan and using his savings. He als