(1.) THIS appeal is at the instance of a wife in a suit for divorce on the ground of cruelty and is directed against the judgment and decree dated 16th May, 2005 passed by the Additional District Judge, Third Court, Barassat in Matrimonial suit No. 17 of 2002 by which the learned Trial Judge granted the decree for divorce.
(2.) BEING dissatisfied, the wife has come up with the present first appeal. The husband filed a suit being Matrimonial Suit No. 1294 of 2001 in the court of the learned District Judge, Barasat for divorce on the ground of cruelty. The said suit was subsequently transferred to the Court of the learned Additional district Judge, Third Court, Barasat and was renumbered as Matrimonial Suit no. 17 of 2002.
(3.) THE case made out by the husband may be summed up thus: