(1.) THIS first appeal is at the instance of a husband in a suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion and is directed against the judgment and decree dated 4th March 1998, passed by the Additional District Judge, First Court, Howrah, in Title Suit No. 149 of 1989, thereby dismissing the said suit.
(2.) BEING dissatisfied, the husband has come up with the present first appeal.
(3.) THE appellant filed a suit being Matrimonial Suit No. 149 of 1989 in the court of District Judge, Howrah, against the respondent for divorce and the case made out by the appellant may be summed up thus: