JAI GOPAL Vs. MAYA RANI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal is preferred against the judgment and decree dated 31.10.2002 passed by the then District Judge, Jind, whereby the petition filed by the appellant under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, (hereinafter called the Act), was dismissed.

(2.) THE facts of the case, put briefly, are that marriage between the parties was solemnized on 1.5.1987 at Hansi according to Hindu rites and ceremonies. The parties cohabited at Jind and one female child, Sweety, was born on 10.8.1988. The respondent has always been under the influence of her mother, who is a widow. The behaviour of the respondent towards appellant was never cordial. She was B.A. B.Ed and employed as a teacher at Tosham at the time of marriage. She refused to get herself transferred to Jind without any explainable reason. The appellant took a house on rent at Tosham though he was employed at District Courts in Jind. The interference of the mother of the respondent did not cease and it became impossible for the appellant to live in Tosham and he shifted back to Jind.

(3.) IN January 1997, Sweety, daughter of the parties, told the appellant that her mother along with her had gone to a Pandit in Jind asking for some device to control her husband so that he would dance to her tune and the Pandit asked her to pay an amount of Rs.150/ - for that purpose.