MANPREET KAUR Vs. JASBIR SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal under Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act is by Manpreet Kaur appellant -wife assailing the judgment and decree dated 10.07.2014 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, SAS Nagar Mohali, in HMA Case No. 19 dated 22.02.2011 filed by Jasbir Singh respondent -husband. The facts extracted from the record, which need elaboration are as under:

(2.) MANPREET Kaur -appellant contested the petition. She altogether denied that she was suffering from any aliment prior to marriage. She also denied that she was taken to any doctor by her husband. According to her, she called her father when she was unwell and he took her to a doctor. It was also submitted by her that she alongwith her husband had gone to meet her parents after 6 -7 months of the marriage and had returned to her matrimonial home with him. She denied that she suffered pain in stomach in the second week of July, 2008 or her mother used to come to her matrimonial home and provide medicine to her. Though she admitted that she had taken treatment from GMCH -32, Chandigarh, but denied all other allegations/averments of the petitioner/husband.

(3.) FINDING that Manpreet Kaur wife -appellant had committed matrimonial offence of cruelty towards Jasbir Singh husband/petitioner and also that she had deserted her husband with effect from 23.01.2009 for a continuous period of two years preceding the date of petition without any reasonable excuse, learned trial Court allowed the petition for divorce filed by Jasbir Singh husband and dissolved the marriage between the parties by a decree of divorce.