TIRATH S. THAKUR. J.

( 1 ) THIS appeal by the wife calls in question the correctness of a Judgment and Decree passed by the prl. Judge, Family Court, Bangalore in M. C. No. 419/1988 whereby the said Court has allowed the husband's petition u/s 13{l) (ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act and dissolved the marriage between the parties by a decree of divorce.

( 2 ) THE parties are Hindus by faith, they were married at Bangalore on 2-5-1985. Out of the wedlock, the couple had begotten a child who is presently living with the appellant. Differences having arisen between the couple, they have been living separately since 1988. M. C. Nb. 419/1988 was in the above background filed by the husband before the Family Coiirt at Bangalore for dissolution of the marriage on the ground that the appellant wife treated the husband with cruelty. The petition enumerated the alleged acts of omission and commission which according to the husband constituted cruelty and entitled him to the relief prayed for. He inter alia alleged that after their honeymoon, when the couple returned to Bangalore, the wife started a quarrel with the petitioner on the ground that sufficient water was not stored in the house. The h

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