( 1 ) THE petitioner and opposite party are husband and wife respectively. Admittedly, they were married sometimes in the year 1985 under the Muslim Act. On 7-2-86, Opposite Party moved an application u/s. 3 (2) of Muslim Women Protection of Rights On Divorce, Act, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), for maintenance allowance, for Rs. 11,000. 00 as MEHAR and recovery of ornaments and properties and other ornaments given to her before, at the time and after marriage. The list of such items was given alongwith the application which includes ornaments, utensils, cycle, tape-recorder, sewing machine and clothes etc. It was alleged by her in her application that after the marriage she resided with the petitioner but the petitioner used to beat her on one pretext or the other and his family members used to say that very little dowry was given. The petitioner used to threaten opposite party that either she should bring a Scooter from her father or else he would turn her out of the house and would divorce her. It was further alleged in the application that the petitioner was not a man fit for marriage and therefore, used to harass the opposite party. It resulted into