JUDGMENT - 1) The parties (petitioner Mahendra and respondent Sushila) were betrothed to each other in June or July 1945 and the marriage between the two took place on 10-3-1947 according to Hindu rites. After a few days of married life, the respondent went to her parents place at Prantij and stayed there till the third week of April 1947. During her stay at Prantij she informed her husband that she had conceived. The petitioner was to leave for the U. S. A. for business and the resondent returned to Bombay about the end of April, 1947, before the petitioner left for the U. S. A. On or about 27-8-1947, respondent gave birth to a female child and the petitioner learnt about this in London where he was at that time. According to the petitioner, he was shocked when he learnt the news about a child having been born to him 5 months 17 days after marriage and he suspected that the child had been conceived prior to marriage through someone else other than the petitioner. after his return to India in November 1947, he filed a suit for dissolution of marriage in the Shahar nyayadhish Court of the Baroda State on the ground that the marriage was brought about by fraud and that the respondent

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