P.Krishna Kumar, J.

The appellant herein filed O.P. No. 76/2003 before the Family Court, Attingal, seeking recovery of gold and money from the respondents. The Family Court partly allowed the petition and granted relief only against the first respondent, the husband. Aggrieved by the said judgment, the petitioner has preferred this appeal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are hereinafter referred to as they were arrayed in the original petition. The marriage between the petitioner and the first respondent was solemnised on 26.08.1994. The petitioner alleged that at the time of marriage her parents gave her 118 sovereigns of gold ornaments. Immediately after the marriage, respondents 1 to 4 took possession of all the ornaments, weighed them, and thereafter respondents 2 and 3 kept them in their custody, representing that the ornaments would be sold and the sale proc