Man fined Rs 100,000 for demanding gifted property from wife after 16 years

Lahore High Court (LHC) imposed a fine of Rs 100,000 on a man for demanding the land he had gifted to his second wife after 16 years.

According to the details, LHC judge Shahid Waheed dismissed Muhammad Riaz’s petition, remarking that it was disgraceful to call the mother of his children and the sick wife in the court without any reason.

While further condemning the bid to drag an ailing woman and a mother to the court, the LHC imposed Rs 100,000 as a fine on the complainant.

A resident of Mandi Bahauddin, Riaz had married Fatima, a divorcee and mother of two daughters, after the death of his first wife. He had gifted 56-kanal land to her but approached the courts 16 years later to get the property back.

After civil court dismissed his petition, he moved the LHC for civil revision against the trial court’s ruling and accused his wife of getting the property through fraud. He told the court that even if the gift proved to be valid in favour of his wife, he had withdrew it.

Justice Waheed ruled that the complainant failed to prove the claims of fraud and conspiracy against the woman in the case, stating that the petitioner had voluntarily and consciously gifted the land to his wife.