MENT RASHID AZIZ KHAN, J.- Facts in brief are that the petitioner got married with Mst. Najma Bibi, respondent No. 1. On account of certain differences between the parties, petitioner filed a suit for dissolution of marriage and another suit for maintenance, yet another suit for recovery of dower and recovery of dowry. The learned Judge Family Court dissolved the marriage between the parties. However, other suits were dismissed. In appeal filed by respondent lady, she was also held entitled to recovery of dowry. The petitioner assailed the said order before the High Court by way of writ petition which was dismissed in litnine on 14.2.2000, therefore, the present petition.
2. The learned counsel for the petitioner argued that at the time of marriage, rupees 500 were fixed as dower but the petitioner on account of fraud and forgery added in another column rupees one lac as deferred dower.
3. We have heard the learned counsel at length and gone through the file as well as relevant column of Nikahnama. It is clear in two different columns where dower money is mentioned. In one column prompt dower is mentioned as rupees 500 hundred and in other column, which is for deferred amount, rupees one lac is mentioned. By no stretches of imagination, it can he held that it is a forged document. Nikahnama itself is conclusive unless proved otherwise. In the absence of anything on record which could persuade us to hold that Nikahnama is forged, we cannot give any other finding except to endorse the view expressed by the learned Judge in chambers as well as learned Additional District Judge. There is no merit in this petition which is, accordingly, dismissed.