SMT. KUSAM LATTA Vs. HARI CHARAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is appeal by Smt. Kusam Latta against her husband Hari Charan from the judgment of the District Judge, Karnal dated June (sic), 1970 allowing petition under section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 filed on behalf of the husband against the wife, Facts leading to the appeal are as under: -

(2.) THE petition of the husband was opposed by the wife on the ground that the husband treated her with cruelty, that he was a drunkard and a gambler, that be coerced her to squeeze money for him from her parents and that she had the apprehension of being done to death by him and consequently she left his house and started living with her parents.

(3.) EVIDENCE was led by the parties in support of these issues. The trial Court discussed both the issues together and gave the findings that the wife had withdrawn from the society of the husband without any reasonable cause and that the wife had not been treated by the husband with cruelty to render unsafe her living with the husband.