JUDGMENT - A.V. SAVANT, J. :---This is an appeal filed by the wife-Arlene Heble against the Judgment and Decree dated 27th April, 1983 passed by the Family Court, Bombay, in Petition No. A-85/90. The said petition was filed by the respondent/husband - Uday Laxman Heble on January 30, 1990 claiming that the marriage solemnised with the appellant on the 7th August, 1981, at Muscat, be dissolved by a decree of divorce and that the custody of their two minor children : Namrata - born on 11th August, 1983 and Sidharth -born on 15th September, 1986 be given to him. The brief facts leading to the dispute are as under :

2. The appellant-wife has passed her senior Cambridge Examination from a convent school at Deolali, Nasik, whereas the respondent-husband has passed B.A. (Hons) with Economics from Delhi University. The wife is an Anglo Indian Christian and the husband is a Hindu. The husband was a bachelor working in Muscat in 1981. The wife was a divorcee, having two daughters Melissa and Merelyn from her earlier husband. She was working in the same Departmental Store as a sales girl where the husband was working as the Manager. Having come in contact with each other, they were married on

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