P. A. CHOUDARY, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a husband s appeal preferred to this Court against an order made by the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad dismissing his application filed under S. 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 for dissolving his marriage with his respondent-wife. The petitioning husband is the respondent s maternal uncle. This appears to be a case of familiarity breeding contempt rendering attraction of novelty absent. The parties are Hindus and their marriage took place on 19th Feb. , 1978. But ever thereafter, they do not appear to have lived for long happily together. The husband alleged in his petition filed for divorce that his wife was in love with one S even prior to her marriage with him and that she was living on terms of illicit intimacy with the said S both before and after her marriage. The petitioner alleged that the wife admitted her illicit relationship with S to him. The husband alleged that he was satisfied that the respondent-wife was trying to snap her relations with him somehow. The respondent had been living away from her husband and with her parents from Jan. 1980, without ever visiting the petitioner except once in the month of July 1980 for just

Click Here to Read the rest of this document