JUDGMENT

Malik, J. - This is a defendant's appeal. The plaintiff has filed a cross-objection. There is a Second Appeal NO. 507 of 1940 connected with it which we shall dispose of by a separate judgment. The plaintiff is the daughter of defendant l, Rafiqa Begam alias Kundan Jan, who is the widow of Mohammad Naqiuddin Ahmad Khan to whom she was married in the last decade of this nineteenth century the date of the marriage, however, is one of the matters in dispute between the parties. Naqiuddin Ahmad died on 17fch November 1924. The plaintiff is one of the children of this marriage. Plaintiff's case was that Kundan, Jan who was a Naik by caste was a prostitute before her marriage to her father Naqiuddin Ahmad. That at the time of her marriage she changed her religion and was known as Rafiqa Begam that after Naqiuddin Ahmad's death Mt. Rafiqa Begam alias Kundan Jan went back to her previous profession of a prostitute, was reconverted and began to live with her relations who are defendants 3 to 8. Defendant 2 Dalip Singh alias Nuruddin Ahmad, was the son of Mt. Kundan Jan alias Rafiqa Begam. Plaintiff's case was that this Dalip Singh was born previous to the nikah between her father an