M.R.SHARMA, J.

1. Petitioners Nos. 1 and 2 are the father-in-law and the mother-in-law respectively of the respondent. The latter filed a complaint under S. 406, I. P. C., against them in the Court of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh. In that complaint it was averred that the respondent was married to Iqbal Jang Singh, son of the petitioners, on March 27, 1977, at Chandigarh by Anand Karaj ceremony which is the customary form of marriage prevalent in the community of the parties. At the time of her marriage, the respondent received substantial presents of ornaments, clothes, furniture and other household articles from her parents, relations, her husband and the petitioners. These items of property, over which she had absolute control, according to her, became her stridhan. As a dutiful daughter-in-law of the petitioners, she reposed full faith in them and entrusted all this property to them. She was disallowed the use of the ornaments (which according to the items mentioned in Annexure A to the complaint were of the value of rupees over one lac) on the pretext that "the times were not safe for wearing valuable ornaments."

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