Oral Common Judgment: (D.S.R. Varma, J.)

Heard both sides.

2. Since both these appeals are interrelated and arise out of the common order and decrees, they are being disposed of by this common judgment.

3. The appeals C.M.A.No.3773 of 2004 and A.S.No.3602 of 2004 are directed against the common order and decrees, dated 18-08-2004, passed by the Judge, Family Court, Hyderabad, in O.P.No.764 of 2002 and O.S.No.74 of 2002, respectively.

4. By the impugned common order, the Court below dismissed O.P.No.764 of 2002, filed by the husband, seeking to grant a decree of divorce, and decreed the suit O.S.No.74 of 2002, filed by the wife, in part directing the husband to pay a sum of Rs.2,000/- per month towards maintenance to the wife from the date of filing of the suit.

5. Appellant is the husband and the respondent is the wife in both the appeals.

6. For the sake of convenience, in this common judgment, the appellant and the respondent will be referred to as “the husband” and “the wife”, respectively.

7. The factual matrix, in brief, is that the marriage was performed between the parties on 22.06.1997 and undisputedly they stayed together for three days and that after some gap (Aas