Judgment

V. RAMASWAMI, J.

(1) HE facts as found by the courts below are as follows. Jeet Singh the appellant in the Civil Appeal No. 3732 of 1982 had two wives. The first wife is the appellant in the Civil Appeal No. 3733 of 1982. She filed some time in 1966 a criminal complaint against her husband under S. 494 and 109 of the Indian Penal Code. During the pendency of the criminal proceedings they entered into a compromise before a Nyaya Panchayat constituted under the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 and the same was recorded by the Adalat Nyaya Panchayat Angadpur Mukam, Meerut District and that consent order dated 14/11/1966 recorded by the Nyaya Panchayat reads as follows:

"TODAY dated 14/11/1966, A.D. Nyaya Panchayat held meeting under the chairmanship of Shri Bhanwar Singh Sarpanch. Shri Hem Raj, son of Ram Sharma Brahman, resident of Village Barawad, Jeet Singh, son of Hem Raj and Smt Ramo Devi wife of Jeet Singh Brahman, resident of Village Barawad party one and Smt Mayawati daughter of Nam Chand, resident of Village Chhaprauli second party with some of their relations are also present. Before the panch both parties stated that Smt Mayawati Devi hhad file