Manjula Chellur, J:

This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 29.7.2006 in M.C.No.444 of 1986 on the file of the II Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Bangalore, seeking declaration of the marriage of appellant-wife with the respondent-husband as null and void.

2. The appellant herein Smt. Suma Gouda-wife, was the respondent before the Family Court and the respondent-husband Mr.M.K. Poovaiah filed matrimonial case a petitioner and the same was allowed. Aggrieved by the said judgment and order, the present appeal is filed contending that the impugned order is illegal, unjust and arbitrary, without appreciating the evidence on record and there is no application of principles of evidence in the right perspective by the Family Court.

3. In brief the pleadings of the parties before the Family Court were as under: The husband Mr. Poovaiah approached the Family Court seeking declaration of his marriage with Smt. Suma Gouda dated 14.7.1994 as null and void in view of subsistence of her marriage with one T. Rajanna as on the date of his marriage with her on 14.7.1994. According to the husband Mr. Poovaiah, after the marriage for some time there was cordial