Recovery.

When my father was alive he transferred Rs.5,00,000 to my wife's savings account from the family firm.She withdrew that money immdeiately via a self cheque from her account.My father is not alive and when he was alive he never told me about this transaction.My wife and me are now separated and there is a divorce case filed by her and custody filed by me.

Can i ask her to return me this Rs.5,00,000 which was given to her by the family firm by my father in which i was a partner?

when your father transferred the amount, from your family firm, then this is a business transaction, and any business transaction is done on an invoice, and shown as a reason for being transferred for some services rendered in business purpose, or for personal use, while transferring it, i bet, there would not be any agreement between ur father and ur wife, that she will return the said amount after so and so date, so it is safe to assume that the money is gone now, in the absence of any clear cut agreement that your wife is supposed to return that money back, since it is a transaction between ur father and your wife, you dont have any right to ask it back, as you are a third person, and only those two parties are involved in the contract, unless there is a clear agreement done to hand over that money back to you, in the absense of your father