JUDGMENT

J. - Leave is granted. Appeal is taken on board for final hearing by consent of parties.

2. Appellant 1 and respondent 1 were married at Tirupati on February 27, 1975. They separated in July 1978. Appellant 1 filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County Missouri, USA. Respondent 1 sent her reply from the here under protest. The Circuit Court passed a decree for dissolution of marriage on February 19, 1980 in the absence of respondent 1.

3. Appellant 1 had earlier filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in the Sub-Court of Tirupati being O.P. No. 87 of 1976. In that petition, appellant 1 filed an application for dismissing the same as not pressed in view of the decree passed by the Missouri Court. On August 14, 1981 the learned Sub-Judge of Tirupati dismissed the petition.

4. On November 2, 1981, appellant 1 married appellant 2 in Yadgirigutta. Hence, respondent 1 filled a criminal complaint against the appellants for the offence of bigamy. It is not necessary to refer to the details of the proceedings in the said complaint. Suffice it to say that in that complaint, the appellants filed an application for their discharge in the