JUDGMENT

Desai, J. - Passage of time heals a festering sore and modifies the sting caused by the criminal behaviour or the petitioner in this Court as well as in the High Court. If this order would have been pronounced about six months back, the petitioner would have been safely lodged in Tihar Jail for this criminal misconduct in taking false oath misleading a Senior learned counsel like Mr. S. N. Kacher and polluting the fountain of justice.

2. Let us recapitulate a few facts. The petitioner is the husband of respondent unfortunate wife Smt. Amrawati Bharti. A son Sandeep was born during the wedlock. The match in our opinion was wholly unequal. The respondent Smt. Amrawati Bharti holds the post-graduate degree and in a Lecturer. The petitioner, the husband, is a low-paid workman and yet he displayed conduct of a male chauvinist. When Sandeep was aged about one year, the petitioner husband beat Smt. Amrawati Bharti and inflicted several injuries. She was thrown out of the house after depriving her of the custody of minor Sandeep. The wife lodged information of the occurrence at Police Station Kotwali Etawah around 5.30 p.m. on the day of the occurrence. The officer in-charge of the