JUDGMENT

Anant Ramanath Hegde, J. - The wife of the petitioner, who suffered a decree for dissolution of marriage in M.C. No. 222/2015 on the file of the Family Court, Belagavi (for short, 'trial Court') in a petition filed by her husband seeking dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty and desertion, is in appeal.

2. For convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking before the trial Court.

3. Certain facts narrated in the pleadings can be summarized as under:

3.1. The petitioner and respondent were married on 22.12.1997 at Haveri. The respondent was doing her internship at the time of marriage. After staying 5 days in the matrimonial house, she left for her parent's house in Belagavi, stayed there for 5 months, and came back to the matrimonial house and lived for 30 days. It is the case of the petitioner-husband that the respondent-wife used to visit her parent's house frequently without there being any justifiable reasons and used to stay there for a long period discarding her marital obligations at her matrimonial house. It is stated that the elder brother and elder sister of the petitioner approached the respondent at her matrimonial house in Belagavi and re