JUDGMENT - S.P. BHARUCHA, J.:---The appellant-wife and the respondent-husband were married under Hindu rites on 25th September, 1974. On 24th September, 1975 the husband filed a petition (being M.J. Petition No. 7405 of 1975) in the City Civil Court at Bombay for annulment of the marriage on the ground of the wife's relative impotency. A petition for divorce on the ground of desertion was thereafter filed by the husband (being M.J. Petition No. 427 of 1983).

2. Consent terms were taken on 10th January 1984 in the petition for annulment. By Clause (1) thereof the petition for divorce was agreed to be heard immediately and the evidence of the husband recorded in the petition for annulment was agreed to be read as evidence therein. By Clause (2) the wife stated that she did not desire to contest the petition for divorce and had no objection to it being made absolute. By Clause (3) wife agreed not to challenge the legality or validity of the husband's second marriage. Clauses (4) and (5) read thus :

"(4) Parties to address the Hon'ble Court on the questions of alimony, pass and future maintenance, as also on the question of the respondent being entitled to ornaments and other expenses as

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