JUDGMENT

M.B.Snehalatha, J

Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment and decree of the Family Court, Palakkad, by which it granted a decree in favour of the respondent herein/petitioner in the Original Petition, for return of her gold ornaments and cash.

2. For the sake of convenience, parties shall be referred to by their rank in the Original Petition as petitioner and respondent.

3. Original Petition was filed by the petitioner/wife against her father-in-law and mother-in-law contending as follows:

4. The marriage of the petitioner with respondents’ son Sunil was solemnized on 16.09.2007 in accordance with Hindu religious rites and ceremonies. At the time of marriage, petitioner was given 35 sovereigns of gold ornaments and cash of ₹1 lakh from her house. Her husband Sunil was suffering from tuberculosis even prior to the marriage and his parents, namely, respondents 1 and 2 suppressed the said fact from her and her family. Respondents misappropriated 30 sovereigns of gold ornaments and the cash of ₹1 lakh of the petitioner. They pledged and sold the gold ornaments under the pretext of raising money for the treatment expenses of Sunil. On 1.2.2016, petitioner’s husband Sunil committ