LABH KAUR Vs. NARAIN SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LABH Kaur, appellant, has challenged the correctness of decree of divorce obtained by Narain Singh, respondent, against her, from the Court of Mrs. Harmohinder Kaur Sandhu, Additional District Judge, Sangrur, on 25th of October, 1977 on the ground of having deserted the latter for a period of 2 years, under. S. 13 (1) (i-b) of the Hindu Marriage Act.

(2.) THE parties were married on 15th of February, 1967. The respondent belongs to village Duggan, District Sangrur, whereas the parents of the appellant reside in village Baradwal, Sub Tehsil Dhuri. Hey lived at village Duggan after marriage. Hey have three living children. He eldest is a daughter born in about 1969, the second is son, born in 1972; and the third is daughter, born in 1974. He respondent filed a petition for dissolution of his marriage with the appellant by a decree of divorce in October, 1976, alleging that the latter had withdrawn from his society for about 2 1/2 years without any reasonable excuse. Efforts to bring her back from the house of her parents have failed and the appellant has refused to come to him.

(3.) THE trial Court framed the following issues:-