MANISHA MONDAL Vs. ANINDYA THAKUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS first appeal is at the instance of a wife in a suit for divorce and is directed against the judgment and decree dated 12th January, 2004 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Second court, Hooghly, in Matrimonial Suit No. 419 of 1998, thereby passing a decree for divorce on the ground of desertion and cruelty.

(2.) BEING dissatisfied, the wife has come up with the present first appeal.

(3.) THE respondent-husband filed an application under Sections 13 (1) (i), (ia) and (ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 for dissolution of the marriage by a decree of divorce on the ground of adultery, cruelty and desertion. The said suit gave rise to the Matrimonial Suit No. 419 of 1998. The case made out by the husband in the said petition for divprce may be summed up thus: -