JUDGMENT

V.N. Khare, J.-The appellant is the husband who is in appeal. The respondent is his wife. The appellant and the respondent were married according to Hindu rites and customs on 26.8.88 at Hyderabad. The marriage was also consumated. During October 1988, while the couple were in a honeymoon, it is alleged that the respondent fold the appel­lant that she was forced into marriage by her parents, while she was more interested in her career rather than a married life, as she had studied M.Sc in electronics. It is also alleged by the appellant that on 15.10.88, on a petty quarrel, the respondent walked out of his house and it was after great persuasion she was brought back to his house. The very next day of the said incident, the respondent was taken by her parent to their house and despite request by the appel­lant and members of his family, she did not return for about two-and-a-half months to the house of the appellant. During that period, there was a reconcitiation, as a result of which the respond­ent was sent to the house of the appellant on the condition that she should be sent to the house of her parents on every Thursday and taken back on Saturday to facilitate her to per