RAJNI GOYAL Vs. AMIT KUMAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By way of this appeal, appellant-Rajni Goyal assailed the judgment and decree dated 25.01.2014 passed by learned Additional District Judge (Fast Track Court), Bathinda, vide which H.M.A. case No. 27 dated 01.03.2011 filed under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short "the Act of 1955") by her husband Amit Kumar-petitioner was allowed and a decree of divorce dissolving their marriage was passed.

(2.) The facts which need elaboration are as under :-

(3.) The petition was contested by appellant Rajni Goyal. In the written statement filed by her, she pleaded that her husband Amit Kumar had not come to the Court with clean hands and had concealed true and material facts. According to her, she and Amit Kumar had a love affair prior to the marriage. When their parents came to know about their intimacy, they arranged their marriage and her parents spent more than Rs. 3 Lacs as per demand of Amit Kumar and his family members. Amit Kumar and his family were not satisfied with the dowry given by her parents and soon after marriage they started raising demand for additional dowry. They started harassing and maltreating her on one pretext or the other. She was beaten up and turned out of the matrimonial home. In that regard, even an application was given by her to Senior Superintendent of Police, Bathinda.