P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal filed by the wife against the order of the learned District Judge, Rangareddy Dist. rejecting her application for grant of divorce and dissolution of marriage under S. 10 of the Indian Divorce Act. The parties are Christians. They were married on 17-5-1972. By the time of marriage, there was age disparity of nearly 20 years between the wife and the husband. They have three children. The eldest among them is about 22 years by now. The petition for divorce was filed on various grounds making very serious allegations against the respondent-husband. Inter alia, it is alleged that the husband was treating her cruelly even going to the extent of forcing her to have sax with others, beating her now and then and locking her up in a room and forcing her to have unnatural sex with him.

( 2 ) THE husband was emphatic in his denial. He said that he was aged about 54 years and he was a chronic diabetic and there was absolutely no reason or possibility for him to indulge in the acts attributed. Series of counter-allegations are made against the wife and the husband asserts that the appellant disrupted the family harmony.

( 3 ) ADMITTEDLY the par

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