JUDGMENT - H.L. GOKHALE, J.:---This appeal is filed by a wife seeking to challenge the judgment and decree dated 10th November, 1990 passed by the Judge, Family Court, Pune, on a petition moved by the respondent-husband under section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, allowing the said petition. Shri Shastri appears for the appellant and Shri Hardikar appears for the respondent. We would like to record at the outset, that before proceeding with final hearing, we made goods efforts to see if the controversy could be resolved amicably, but our efforts failed.

2. The parties were married on 10th March, 1985 and a son named Vivek was born out of this marriage on 25th August, 1986. Subsequently, the above referred petition for divorce bearing Petition No. A- 405 of 1989 was filed by the respondent-husband which has led to the impugned judgment and decree. In this petition, he alleged that the appellant was insisting on separate residence and that she did not behave properly with the elders in the family. Thereafter it is alleged that the appellant-wife attempted to commit suicide on a number of occasions, causing mental agony and cruelty to the respondent. Ultimately, she went a

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