JUDGMENT - ASHOK AGARWAL, J.:---Being aggrieved by the judgment and decree dated 27th August, 1986, by his Honour Judge S.F. Rego, of the City Civil Court Bombay, decreeing the petitioner-husband's petition for divorce under section 13(1)(ia) and 13(1)(ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, for divorce on the ground of cruelty and desertion, the original respondent wife has preferred the present appeal.

2. The parties to the marriage hail from a middle class educated family. The father of the wife was the head of the department of Sanskrit in Ruia College, Bombay, whereas the father of the husband was a retired school teacher at Wardha. The wife having passed her M.A. in Sanskrit was employed as a Lecturer in Ruia College. The husband had passed his B.E. (Civil) and was an Assistant Lecturer in the Government Polytechnic at Amravati. The marriage between the parties was soleminised in Bombay on the 18th March, 1967. Soon after the marriage the wife tendered her resignation and accompanied the husband to Wardha where her in-laws were residing. The parties stayed there for about 8 days and thereafter proceeded to Amravati and stayed there till about the end of April 1967. Thereafter th

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