JUDGMENT- S. RADHAKRISHNAN, J.:---The brief facts are that the appellant in Second Appeal No. 88/1984 viz. Gayabai w/o Panditrao Kalure (original plaintiff) had claimed that she was a legally wedded wife of Panditrao Chimaji Kalure (original defendant). Gayabai had filed a Regular Civil Suit No. 193/1969 for grant of maintenance from Panditrao Chimaji Kalure and also claimed maintenance for the previous three years. In the said regular civil suit, Gayabai had contended that they have been married for 11 years and that she has been living with her husband for a period of five years and eight months. In the year 1963, Panditrao Kalure had obtained a job as a teacher and he had declined to take her with him at the place of service at village Bhogalwadi. Gayabai had alleged that Panditrao Kalure, had ill-treated her. It appears that said Gayabai had also filed an application for maintenance under section 488 of Cri.P.C. In the said proceedings Panditrao Kalure had produced a divorce deed, mentioning that the said marriage was mutually dissolved between the parties by consent on 5-5-1967. The Criminal Court had accepted the said divorce deed and had rejected the application of Gayabai f

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