LAWS(CAL)-1969-5-9

SACHINDRANATH CHATTERJEE Vs. NILIMA CHATTERJEE

Decided On May 16, 1969
SACHINDRANATH CHATTERJEE Appellant
V/S
SM.NILIMA CHATTERJEE Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The appellant in this case is Dr. Sachindra Nath Chatterjee, M.B. and D.T.M. (Calcutta), D.M.R. (Madras), D.M.R.T. (England), and Reader, Radiotherapy, Medical College, Calcutta, and the respondent is his wife, Sm. Nilima Chatterjee; they are referred to hereinafter as simply Sachindra and Nilima.

(2.) Sachindra is now about fifty-five and Nilima fifty years of age.

(3.) The appeal is brought from a Judgment and decree dated December 16, 1964, of a learned Additional District Judge, Alipore, dismissing Sachindra's petition dated January 19. 1962, for divorce on the ground of Nilima's adultery: just the ground under Section 13, Sub-section (1), Clause (i), of the Hindu Marriage Act 25 of 1955, or, in the alternative, for Judicial separation on the ground of "severe cruelty and tremendous torture" by her.: just the ground under Section 10, Subsection (1), Clause (b), thereof.