SUKHDARSHAN SINGH Vs. RAJINDER KAUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 01.02.2014 vide which the petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short "the Act") for dissolution of marriage of appellant-husband Shri Sukhdarshan Singh with respondent-wife Smt. Rajinder Kaur, was dismissed with costs. The facts garnered from the record are as under:-

(2.) Respondent appeared and contested the petition. She admitted her relationship with the petitioner but denied all allegations levelled against her in the petition. She disclosed that the petitioner had filed a petition for restitution of conjugal rites before the Court at Mohali in which no such pleas were raised. When she indicated that she was ready for restitution, he withdrew the petition. His sole motive was to create some evidence in his favour. She categorically denied that she was having illicit relationship with her brother-in-law Sahab Singh or had been leaving the matrimonial home without permission of the petitioner. She alleged that she had never stayed in the house of her sister and brother-in-law after marriage and had visited them only once that too alongwith the petitioner. She further denied that she had ever treated the petitioner with cruelty and alleged that it was the petitioner whose behavior had always been harsh and cruel towards her because of which she had gone in depression.

(3.) Petitioner filed rejoinder controverting the objections raised by the respondent and on the pleadings of the parties, following issues were settled:-