L. Narasimha Reddy, J.

The marriage between the appellant and the respondent took place on 16.04.1983 and they were also blessed with two children. The respondent was initially employed in Armed Forces and worked at various places. After retirement from the Army, he secured employment in Customs and Central Excise Department and was posted at Visakhapatnam. In the year 1997, the appellant is said to have left Visakhapatnam for Kakinada, where her parents were residing, on account of harassment and ill-treatment caused by the respondent.

2. The respondent filed O.P. No. 200 of 2011 in the Court of the III Additional Senior Civil Judge, Kakinada under Section 13 (1a) of the Hindu Marriage Act (for short ‘the Act’) for divorce. He pleaded that through her acts and omissions, the appellant caused cruelty to him and that the same constituted a ground for divorce. He stated that after leaving his company in 1997, the appellant filed M.C.No.71 of 2005 in the Court of the IV Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kakinada, which was transferred to the Court of the V Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kakinada and renumbered as M.C.No.140 of 2008 and that it was allowe